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Issues with DINA netboot, TFTP port range

crystalfire
Who joined July 17, 2013, 9:22 a.m.
and authored 3 notes

Wrote the following at July 28, 2013, 2:23 p.m...

I have an indigo 2 that did not want to netboot;

PROM output was:
is not a valid file to boot OR something about magic I forget the exact phrase

I quickly slammed "setenv debug 4" in to the prom to get some better output

What I kept seeing was something like;

tftprecv: pkt from server port 65528, not -22

Figuring that the system was not liking something about the TFTP port settings- I added this little gem to /etc/rc.local on DINA

sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmin=20000
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmax=32767

( Source was; http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/faq ... nt-failing )

I only thought it would be worth posing because the PROM output had me thinking something was wrong with my source files... not the TFTP server
Hopefully this will save someone else the trouble later on...

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miod
Who joined Oct. 9, 2009, 1:44 a.m.
and authored 193 notes

Wrote the following at July 28, 2013, 10:06 p.m...

crystalfire wrote:

What I kept seeing was something like;

tftprecv: pkt from server port 65528, not -22

For the record, what does ``version'' show? I am (slowly) trying to find the minimal prom versions which have the tftp port bug fixed, which would likely be 5.2 or 5.3.
I know that

Code:

PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.1 Rev B3 IP24 Sep 17, 1993 (BE)

is affected, while

Code:

PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.3 Rev B10 R4X00/R5000 IP24 Feb 12, 1996 (BE)

and

Code:

PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.3 Rev C IP22 Oct 20, 1994 (BE)

are safe.

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