Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

We had a similar problem when booting our MV2304's where it would
take an extremely long time to boot.  After messing with the ethernet
settings we finally settled on changing from using rsh to tftp when
booting our crates:

	ftp password = blank
	flags		 = 0x88

Of course this means you need to have your host setup to support tftp.
In our case our hosts are Solaris workstations.

Kevin Tsubota
	

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Rees [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: Mark Rivers
> Cc: '[email protected] '
> Subject: RE: PowerPC woes
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Mark Rivers wrote:
> 
> > I have a different suggestion from Andrew's.  I have seen a 
> very similar
> > problem to the on Nick describes on the MVME2700.  The 
> problem is actually
> > with the Ethernet 10/100 autonegotiation.  If I plug the 
> Ethernet into a
> > 10/100 Hub it works fine.  If I plug it into certain types 
> of Ethernet
> > switches (e.g. Cisco 2924 I think) it takes several 
> minutes, and it does it
> > twice as Nick observed. Try using a different physical 
> device and see if it
> > improves.
> 
> I have tried four configurations:
> 
> 1. An autoconfiguring 10/100 switch (Allied Telesyn), 
> 2. An autoconfiguring 10/100 hub (SMC)
> 3. A fixed 10 base T switch (Allied Telesyn)
> 4. A fixed 100 base TX hub (Allied Telesyn).
> 
> All with no result. Sob. Sob.
> 
> I have also tried changing the address translation stuff as 
> per Andrew's
> suggestions, but to no avail. However, I may have got it 
> wrong, so I will
> continue to think about it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Nick Rees
> 
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