Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-27 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
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 chang

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From > > kernel 2.2 on the arp entries expire faster which lets the tftp download > > fail somewhere in the middle.

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-27 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From > kernel 2.2 on the arp entries expire faster which lets the tftp download > fail somewhere in the middle. I see. I haven't used TFTP on the DECstation ever. I think the default ti

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-27 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2001-11-27 13:49:30 +0100, Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > At least this should be mentioned: > > > > > > echo 4096 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/retrans_time > > > > Is

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > At least this should be mentioned: > > > > echo 4096 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/retrans_time > > Is it needed for TFTP? What for? The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From kernel 2.2 on the ar

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-27 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > At first the installation misses a short "Howto boot a decstation over > the net" which is not that trivial. It depends on how you are doing it... For me MOP appears to be piece of cake now that you can boot ELF directly. :-) Nothing to configure,

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

2001-11-26 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:46:17PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Hi, > i am just trying to install debian-mipsel on a Decstation 5000/150 > with the bootfloppies 3.0.15-2001-10-19. OOps - Write once memory - 3.0.14-2001-09-30 i meant. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]