[Ltsp-discuss] "ioctl SIOCSARP: Network is unreachable" error

[Peter B. <pet...@ls...>]

Hello all...

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone
involved in the LTSP project for such great work...

We've been running a number of diskless terminals
using the LTSP configs and stuff for a while now
for email access, and all is fine...

Fiddling about today, however, I suddenly have two
terminals (they're 200MHz PCs with 3Com 3C905C NICs)
failing to boot at all, and I'm just getting this error:

Apr 24 20:10:53 icecube bootpd[721]: ioctl SIOCSARP: Network is unreachable

from the system doing the bootp...

The back-end server bit is running on a RH 6.2 box,
but is a seperate system from the bootp server, but
all of this has worked fine for ages, until I started
changing some X-settings today, and that is surely
not causing the problem here, because the other
terminals are fine...

Does anyone know what is causing this, as hardware
failure on two machines next to each other seems unlikely... ?



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