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From: Richard Danter <richard.danter@ntlworld•com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.10, ppc8280, odd ARP request - solved
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:31:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42833E9B.3090608@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427F553A.1060506@ntlworld.com>

Richard Danter wrote:
> 
> My board boots using U-Boot. It tftp loads the kernel image via FCC2, so 
> I know the FCC's are working (I have tested the others too). This part 
> is fine, but once the kernel has loaded it tries to NFS mount the root 
> filesystem. When it gets to the point of looking up the RPC port it 
> first sends an ARP request for the server. When eth0 is any of the FCC's 
> I see a 59 byte packet on the wire (using ethereal). The server either 
> does not see the packet or just ignores it so there is no reply to the 
> board.
> 
> When I boot using SCC1 as eth0 the ARP request sent is 60 bytes long. It 
> is replied to and the NFS mount works.
> 
> I noticed that U-Boot also sends an ARP request before the tftp download 
> starts and it is 60 bytes long using both SCC and FCC ports. But as far 
> as I know, ARP requests can be varying length (the last few bytes seem 
> to be just padding).

Looks like the problem may be with the setup of the FCC, particularly 
with working out what speed to run at. I connected my board to a 
100BaseT hub and it worked perfectly. It was failing when I was using an 
older 10BaseT hub. In both cases the hub is a Netgear and I have never 
had a problem with any other board or PC.

Odd how it effects Linux but not U-Boot. Seems to indicate a driver 
issue anyway.

Rich

      reply	other threads:[~2005-05-12 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 12:19 linux-2.6.10, ppc8280, odd ARP request Richard Danter
2005-05-12 11:31 ` Richard Danter [this message]

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