Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:7560 alt.sys.sun:3228 Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,alt.sys.sun Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!mikey From: mikey@ccs.carleton.ca (Mike McFaul) Subject: Re: Booting a SPARCstation SLC Message-ID: <1991Mar23.020515.22554@ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada References: Distribution: comp Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 02:05:15 GMT In article otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >We just got a SPARCstation SLC, which works fine except that during tftp >bootup, we get these messages splattered all over the screen: > CRC Error > Silo exceeded >Now, these would seem to be Ethernet traffic statuses. Is our network >getting congested, or is the boot server (a 4/260) somehow misconfigured ? >Or are these messages normal ? I believe these are indications of garbage on your network. We have an SLC and a Sparc station 1+ (diskless) and we've seen similar stuff when our network had bad packets on it. We installed a bridge between the offending equipment and our network and the errors went away.