Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Garrett D. Rinehart) · Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:48:03 -0500

> >> 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.

Thank you, Jeff and Bill. Now that you mention it, I remember
reading those notes about the ARP stuff. Sorry I didn't recall
that before bothering everyone again.

-- Garrett

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