01-28-2013
@gp81.....surely a network boot attempt would eventually time-out.
The OP is saying that the spinning cursor freezes.
The only two things I can think of that would cause that are (1) hardware issue (eg, memory problem), or (2) System Controller (SC) settings corrupt and/or incorrect.
I believe all other errors would produce an error message and a crash back to the SC or OK prompt.
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EN(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual EN(4)
NAME
en - Xerox 3 Mb/s Ethernet interface
SYNOPSIS
/sys/conf/SYSTEM:
NEN en_controllers # Xerox prototype (3 Mb) Ethernet
DESCRIPTION
The en interface provides access to a 3 Mb/s Ethernet network. Due to limitations in the hardware, DMA transfers to and from the network
must take place in the lower 64K bytes of the UNIBUS address space, and thus this must be among the first UNIBUS devices enabled after
boot.
Each of the host's network addresses is specified at boot time with an SIOCSIFADDR ioctl. The station address is discovered by probing the
on-board Ethernet address register, and is used to verify the protocol addresses. No packets will be sent or accepted until a network
address is supplied.
The interface software implements an exponential backoff algorithm when notified of a collision on the cable. This algorithm utilizes a
16-bit mask and the VAX-11's interval timer in calculating a series of random backoff values. The algorithm is as follows:
1. Initialize the mask to be all 1's.
2. If the mask is zero, 16 retries have been made and we give up.
3. Shift the mask left one bit and formulate a backoff by masking the interval timer with the mask (this is actually the two's complement
of the value).
4. Use the value calculated in step 3 to delay before retransmitting the packet.
The interface handles both Internet and NS protocol families. It normally tries to use a ``trailer'' encapsulation to minimize copying
data on input and output. The use of trailers is negotiated with ARP. This negotiation may be disabled, on a per-interface basis, by set-
ting the IFF_NOTRAILERS flag with an SIOCSIFFLAGS ioctl.
DIAGNOSTICS
en%d: output error. The hardware indicated an error on the previous transmission.
en%d: send error. After 16 retransmissions using the exponential backoff algorithm described above, the packet was dropped.
en%d: input error. The hardware indicated an error in reading a packet off the cable.
en%d: can't handle af%d. The interface was handed a message with addresses formatted in an unsuitable address family; the packet was
dropped.
SEE ALSO
intro(4N), inet(4F)
BUGS
The device has insufficient buffering to handle back to back packets. This makes use in a production environment painful.
The hardware does word at a time DMA without byte swapping. To compensate, byte swapping of user data must either be done by the user or
by the system. A kludge to byte swap only IP packets is provided if the ENF_SWABIPS flag is defined in the driver and set at boot time
with an SIOCSIFFLAGS ioctl.
3rd Berkeley Distribution August 20, 1987 EN(4)