[rescue] bootp and dhcp - conflict?

[Doug McIntyre]

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:16:13PM -0700, Dan Moisa wrote:
> The conclusion here is that the 3/80 is just slow. It works fine with
> SunOS 4.1.1, though for that I gave up on the instructions for how to
> set up netboot from the installation files, and just installed to
> harddrive and copied the directory structure/etc out of it. Nothing
> complex worked otherwise - X, patches, the upgrade.

Yeah, they were pretty slow boxes, the industry sure has changed since that
time period. 

> The main problem right now is that NFS gets dropped after roughly half
> an hour. Anyone know what kind of keepalive is needed here? I'm
> looking for something that basically keeps the connections open
> indefinitely.

There _shouldn't_ need to be any keepalive to keep going. I'm going to guess
you have some packet loss on your network that you need to track down.
Perhaps a bad transceiver or cable.