On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I see. I haven't used TFTP on the DECstation ever. I think the default > > timeout is too low anyway. RFC826 does not specify any timeouts but > > keeping them below 2 minutes is pointless IMO. If an interface assigned > > to an IP address changes its MAC address, it will start to use the new one > > for ARP requests immetiately and all caches in the LAN will have a chance > > to get updated. > > IIRC the kernel refreshes the timeout on communication - But only on > TCP not UDP ... Weird. > > Weird -- the read should time out after 10000 loops... It definitely > > needs to be checked. > > Did this change lately - The kernel of the boot-floppies is a little > old. I don't think so. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
