jmr@philabs.Philips.Com (Joanne Mannarino) (09/04/87)
Thanks for all your responses to my 3.4 problem. We have finally found a solution. The 3.4 release introduced subnetting. The way the networking software for 3.4 works is that the diskless client comes up and requests a subnet mask. It waits for a response from the server. The TCP/IP software (we're running XLAN but problems have occured with Wollongong also) responds with a subnet mask that is invalid. The diskless client is supposed to check it, determine that it is invalid, disregard it, and wait for the server to respond with the correct subnet mask. BUT with the 3.4 release, the client wasn't ignoring the invalid subnet mask so thus it would hang. SUN has provided a patch to the kernel software to take care of this. If anyone else is still having this problem, you should call SUN support and ask for the fix to bug id 1006127. This solution was sent to me by Bill Nowicki, Network Software Developer at SUN. According to him, they have a guard against this in the 3.5 release. -Joanne Mannarino -- joanne mannarino uunet!philabs!jmr philips laboratories or (914)945-6008 jmr@philabs.philips.com