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Conference noted::etherworks

Title:EtherWORKS Notes Conference
Notice:WWW server at http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/adapters/
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Wed Sep 01 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1318
Total number of notes:5673

1296.0. "DE500-AA not send MOP request." by TKTVFS::KOBAYASHI_S (Seiki Kobayashi, Network support/JAPAN) Thu Apr 10 1997 08:50

Hello,

I'm working with a field engineer whos' customer is having a MOP booting
problem on Alphastation 500/500. This customer uses 2 AS500/500 for satellite
of LAVc and they use DE500-AA that connects to EtherWORKS switch 8T/TX 
with 100BaseT. The problem is that the customer does network boot 
( >>> B EWB0 ) , DE500-AA doesn't send any message to network.  
We could reproduce this problem at our local officce and we tried following
things.

1) changed the EWB0_MODE to "Twisted-pair" (10 Mbps) -> NG
2) changed the AS500 firmware from V6.3-5 to V6.4-5  -> NG
3) changed the DE500-AA to DE500-XA                  -> OK(sent MOP message)
4) booted from EWA0 (DECchip 21040 Ethernet device)  -> OK(sent MOP message)
5) changed the EWB0_PROTOCOLS to "BOOTP"             -> NG

It seems that DE500-AA on AS500 is not support network boot. Am I doing 
something wrong? Any assistance on this one would be much appreciated.

Thank in advance.

Seiki.
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1296.1Check console versionSTAR::STOCKDALEThu Apr 10 1997 11:288
>>It seems that DE500-AA on AS500 is not support network boot. Am I doing
>>something wrong? Any assistance on this one would be much appreciated.

I'd verify the console revision.  Once the console is able to do a MOP
load with the DE500-AA, then you may still fail unless VMS has support
for this module as well which you can verify according to note 1261.2.

- Dick
1296.2TKTVFS::KOBAYASHI_SSeiki Kobayashi, Network support/JAPANFri Apr 11 1997 09:2522
Hello Dick,
Thank you for your reply.

>I'd verify the console revision.  Once the console is able to do a MOP
>load with the DE500-AA, then you may still fail unless VMS has support
>for this module as well which you can verify according to note 1261.2.

We are testing the DE500-AA with AS500/500 alpha system firmware V3.9. 

	SRM:V6.4-5
	ARC:V4.52
	PALcode: VMS PALcode V1.18-0,OSF PALcode V1.21-0
	SROM:V2.05

Also we tested with alpha system firmware v3.8 and we were faced same problem.

This customer has AS1000A as LAVc boot host and we already installed TIMA kit
(ALPLAN04_062,ALPBOOT06_062) for Alpha VMS V6.2-1. The workaround is that we
change DE500-AA to DE500-XA and this workaround works fine.

Best regards,
Seiki.
1296.3STAR::STOCKDALESat Apr 12 1997 06:039
>>This customer has AS1000A as LAVc boot host and we already installed TIMA kit
>>(ALPLAN04_062,ALPBOOT06_062) for Alpha VMS V6.2-1. The workaround is that we
>>change DE500-AA to DE500-XA and this workaround works fine.

Sounds like the console doesn't support the -AA.  You might check in the
WRKSYS::ALPHASTATION conference to see what version of firmware is needed.  Note
1892 says on the AS500 it is v6.3-11, I don't know about the AS1000.

- Dick
1296.4TKTVFS::KOBAYASHI_SSeiki Kobayashi, Network support/JAPANMon Apr 14 1997 05:447
Hello Dick,

I escalated this problem to IPMT today. If I get some information, reply to
this note.

Thanks,
Seiki.