booting rtems over the network?

[Jack Cawkwell]

I have come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with my server
network card, it appears to work ok for normal
network use. So I won't make progress until I can get another machine with
supported card.

Jack

J.Cawkwell at open.ac.uk writes:
>Also,
>
>ifconfig on the server ifconfig returns:
>
>[root at claude xinetd.d]# /sbin/ifconfig
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:0F:54:E3  
>          inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:212940 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1800 
>
>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>
>The only traffic since boot up has been for the bootpd server,
>The worrying part is the large number of dropped packets,
>but I am putting that down to the client broadcasting
>enthusiastically.
>
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