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NIM client boot problem
Post 302568080 by phobus on Wednesday 26th of October 2011 07:31:21 AM
10-26-2011
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Right the good news is the NIM server knows that the LPAR is there and ready to be installed. It also knows that certain resources are allocated to it.
Please excuse me if I am "Teaching my Granny how to suck eggs".
How did you try to boot the LPAR, from the NIM server? Or have you started the LPAR to SMS and setup the network boot configuration. This as you well know includes the IP address of the server, its subnet mask, and the IP address of the gateway. You can then PING the NIM master to make sure the network between the NIM master and client is open with no firewall in the way, which often happens.
Again if I am telling you things you already know please excuse me. The things I have outlined above are the usual reasons a NIM client will not boot from the NIM master.
Please excuse me if I am "Teaching my Granny how to suck eggs".
How did you try to boot the LPAR, from the NIM server? Or have you started the LPAR to SMS and setup the network boot configuration. This as you well know includes the IP address of the server, its subnet mask, and the IP address of the gateway. You can then PING the NIM master to make sure the network between the NIM master and client is open with no firewall in the way, which often happens.
Again if I am telling you things you already know please excuse me. The things I have outlined above are the usual reasons a NIM client will not boot from the NIM master.
I'm happy if someone is trying to help me .Every time I go to SMS and set up IPL and ping NIM server. But the thing is that I can ping NIM server but I can not use bootps for some reason.
I have contacted our network team to confirm, that ports 67 and 68 are not blocked to this particular managed system.
If they say that there are no ports blocked I will assign physical ethernet adapter to lpar to avoid VIOS and will see if it was caused by VIOS or not.
---------- Post updated at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:06 PM ----------
So I have tried to boot up via physical ethernet adapter from another NIM server and avoided VIO server and still I can not boot. I can ping the NIM server but not use bootps protocol.
Still waiting for network team to confirm if bootps ports are blocked or not.
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rarpd
RARPD(8) System Manager's Manual RARPD(8) NAME
rarpd - reverse address resolution protocol daemon SYNOPSIS
rarpd [-v] [-i interface ] DESCRIPTION
Rarpd listens on the ethernet for broadcast packets asking for reverse address resolution. These packets are sent by hosts at boot time to find out their IP address. Rarpd looks up the six octet ethernet number in the ethers map finding a host name. This name is translated to the IP address of the host by a DNS lookup. The IP address is then sent to the host. Before rarpd can start its service it first finds out what the IP address and hardware address of the ethernet is. Warning! Sun diskless workstations assume that the first RARP server that answers is the host they are to boot from. For this to work all other Sun RARP servers delay their answer if they are not also the requestors boot server. This rarpd does not have this kludge so it will happily engage the Sun boot server to see who can answer the client first. Unless your host can actually serve a Sun diskless client, it is better not to list any more hosts in the ethers file than necessary. OPTIONS
-v Be verbose. Show requests which the daemon is responding to. -i Bind to the named interface. By default rarpd binds to the default interface for the local system type, if available. SEE ALSO
ifconfig(8), ethers(5), hosts(5), AUTHOR
Derrick J. Brashear (shadow@dementia.org) The man page is mostly from the Minix version, by Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) RARPD(8)