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From: mort@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Diskless node packet size limits?
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Date: 8 Apr 91 20:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.211328.41202@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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In article <1991Apr2.211328.41202@eagle.wesleyan.edu> hdtodd@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>	Another solution might be to tell netman to use small packets.  I
>cannot find man pages or manual entries for netman parameters: are there any
>options?  It appears that the diskless systems actually generate the requests
>and netman merely responds: if that's the case, is there any way to limit the
>packet sizes on diskless nodes as they boot?

        The only option to netman is -db. When netman is run in a
window, the -db option tells it to display more verbose
information regarding the replies netman makes.

        As for regulation of packet size, netman gives replies of
a size requested by its client. Therefore, as you suspect, it is
netboot that must ask for smaller replies. This is not
configurable. Note also, that it is the number of pages
requested, not the packet size, that netboot specifies.

        Finally, as you are no doubt well aware, placing a bridge
between a diskless node and its paging partner is not a supported
configuration.


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