[NickPGSmith]

Hello. I acquired an old Octane that needed some attention. Successes so far:
- Completely stripped down, removed all the built-up dust, especially the wads in the top vents (ugh)
- Tried to lubricate the PSU fan to stop it whining (partially successful)
- Replaced the incandescent bulbs on the lightbar

Now I am ready to do a network boot of IRIX which is where I am coming unstuck. I installed the dexter1/irix-install docker image on Fedora 35, and the container runs, and I can successfully grab a file via TFTP. However, from the Octane when I monitor to/from traffic I can only see outgoing requests with tcpdump:


IP 10.0.0.2.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 08:00:69:0b:9e:1f, length 300

and no response. The UI says it could not connect to server, and it generated the path

xio(0)pci(15)multi(0)network(0)bootp()10.0.0.1:/inst/dist/sa(sash64)

which is curious as this has the IP of the bootp server but yet it seems to be broadcasting. Well, it should work if the bootp server responded.


On my Fedora box running the container I see:

netstat -a | grep shell
tcp6      0      0 [::]:shell              [::]:*                  LISTEN

which seem so show it's listening, although why it reports tcp6 is not clear to me.

netstat -a | grep boot
udp6      0      0 [::]:bootps            [::]:*



might be suspicious to me (not showing LISTEN) but then TFTP shows similar, and I can connect to it and grab a file OK:

netstat -a | grep tftp
udp6      0      0 [::]:tftp

Now, I also expected the container to use a bootptab file in the mounted volume, but it seems it's using /etc/bootptab so I copied by file over the top of /etc/bootptab in a rebuilt container.

Still no joy. Can anyone suggest some further diagnosis or ideas? Thanks