Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Bill Brown <[email protected]> · Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:38:11 -0700

At 02:11 PM 7/20/98 -0600, Jeff Hill wrote:
>
>
>On Monday, July 20, 1998 1:57 PM, Garrett D. Rinehart
[SMTP:[email protected]] wrote:
>> I just pulled my brand new MVME167 from its box, plugged in the 
>> ROMs which had been in a known-good CPU and plugged it into my test 
>> ioc. It echos the boot params and tells me it's attaching 
>> interfaces, as usual. Then it says "Loading..." for several minutes 
>> and eventually fails. The known-good CPU continues to work fine 
>> (when I swapped everything back). Is there something with the ROM 
>> version that won't work on this new CPU, is the CPU bad, or am I 
>> just missing something (as usual)?
>> 
>> Thanks for the help.
>> 
>> -- Garrett Rinehart
>>    IPNS, ANL
>
>Perhaps you need to purge the "arp" cache on the boot host
>when changing the Ethernet address which corresponds to a particular
>IP address. Type "man arp" for the details.

I got bit on exactly this same problem a week or two back, and that was the
cure -
wait for the table to time out.  I think it requires root privelege (at
least on
our systems) to force a purge.

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System