Sparc Clbuttic DHCP Issue

On 10 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

Anybody remember the pink disks that Red Hat 4.0 for the Sparc came on? Debian has been supporting Sparc and UltraSparcs for years, but RH6.2 was the last Red Hat to do so. I know SuSE did so, as does PLD and UltraPenguin.

OK, what shows up insbin-ifconfig -a when it's plugged in to the hub. Try a 'ping -c10 -s1400 name.of.router' and compare the ifconfig output. Now, unplug the hub, and using the appropriate cable, plug directly into the router, and repeat the ping and look at the ifconfig output. Pay particular attention to the error counts.

I had a handful of IPCs and IPXs using it back in the late 1990s.

I don't recall any problems with 6.2 on Sparc hardware. In any case I have no idea where you might find the errata any more. 6.2 was out for three years (Mar 2000 to Mar 2003), and the last x86 errata listing I have had 253 packages (out of 745 out-of-box) and 38 for the powertools (out of 521 packages out-of-box). They might be on some archive server somewhere at redhat.com.

"it has never been able to connect" - meaning what - and how determined? Lessee, you said you were doing static addresses - let's start with what's in the ARP cache (-sbin-arp -a after you've tried to use the network). It can't be a firewall problem, because RH6.2 didn't default to running one (it would be IPCHAINS by the way, not iptables). You also should have tcpdump on the box - what is on the wires?

Old guy