[599] in testers
netboot install (RT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jan 7 20:56:16 1990
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 90 20:55:58 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Trying to netboot prometheus (using the code from 6.4R-but-not-late-
enough-to-just-run-incremental-updates) I had to make several
attempts. On one of these (after a couple that ran without problems
-- except for timeouts), I got:
Address 18.72.0.59 is not on this network!
And it used 18.72.2.59. Later, I got the same about 18.72.2.59, but
it used it anyways.
While it's waiting for a response from a remote host (e.g., when I
inadverdently typed in its own address as the server), it doesn't seem
interruptible. It also didn't seem to time out.
After I hit ctrl-alt-pause, the next attempt seemed to work okay the
first time (using 18.72.2.59), then (on all following attempts) I got
the not-on-this-net message again about the address it had used the
first time.
The default server (at least for RTs) seems to be odie, but I haven't
yet got a single response from it.
Furthermore, when I try explicitly using multics (which is activated
and has me logged in, but is otherwise idle) as the server, I
consistently get timeouts, but after some (varying) number of packets
are received.
-- Ken
