[rescue] Network problems

[Larry Snyder]

If the RARP server isn't seeing the requests, he'll be hard pressed
to return an answer.  tcpdump broadcast may help, as the RARP request
is one.
HTH,
-ls-

Steve Sandau <ssandau at bath.tmac.com> wrote:
> I have noticed may of the SPARCs I have complain about the ethernet port
> being down or disabled when they boot. The interfaces then work fine.
> Dunno why.
> 
> I'd be looking at the rarpd process on the server first. Is tcpdump
> looking at IP addresses, or at any mac address at all? Could be that
> it's not getting an IP...
> 
> Can you figure out what IP address the SS is using? Can you ping it?
> Maybe arp on the machine running tcpdump would show up something
> interesting?