Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mmlai!burzio
From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Booting discless over multiple LANs
Summary: Lans and Discless panics
Message-ID: <675@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 90 14:45:06 GMT
References: <3249@plains.UUCP> <1720001@hpbbi4.HP.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <1720001@hpbbi4.HP.COM>, markl@hpbbi4.HP.COM (#Mark Lufkin) writes:
> 	The reason for implementing
> 	the boot procedure in this way is to make the system be able to 
> 	recover from network errors -  a diskless system is able to check the
> 	LAN if it has a failure. If it detects that the LAN is broken then
> 	the client will wait indefinitely for the LAN to be fixed and the
> 	server to respond.

Why can't a discless node realize this after it is running?  If you
unplug a discless node from the network (accidentally one hopes :-)
it almost immediately panics.  Couldn't there be a way to make it
wait for a few minutes before panicking?

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