RE: New 167

[johill@lanl.gov (Jeff Hill)]

On Monday, July 20, 1998 1:57 PM, Garrett D. Rinehart [SMTP:rinehart@aps.anl.gov] 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.

Jeff