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thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) writes:
>In article <chicken.717694203@npac.syr.edu>, chicken@npac.syr.edu (Mark R. Levinson) writes:
>|>	Could anyone tell me if it's possible to boot a diskless DECstation
>|>5000 (running Ultrix 4.2a) over FDDI rather than ethernet? [...]
>
>Sure can.  Just make to register the FDDI board's address with ris instead of
>the Ethernet address.  It's either one or the other.  My workstations loads
>over FDDI.

	Unfortunately, this wasn't my problem. At the moment I have a
completely separate client registered for the FDDI board, with a different
name and IP address than the Ethernet-booting client. The client and server
are on the same ring, but downline load requests never make it to the server
(nothing shows up in syslog when I try it, and the client machine simply
hangs).

	I know the FDDI network itself is operable, because as long as I boot
the client over Ethernet it can talk to the server using the FDDI interface;
it's only when I try to boot over FDDI that it doesn't work.

	If anyone has encountered similar problems, I'd appreciate hearing
what you did to solve them. Thanks again for any help....

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Mark R. Levinson
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
Syracuse University