[tech] decserver

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Manchester wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:39:39PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > It's trying to moop off hydra, the logs only have
> > Apr 24 13:28:50 hydra mopd[298]: 8:0:2b:11:8f:99 (1) Do you have SH1601ENG? (Yes)
> > 
> > repeated. Anybody know what's wrong?
> 
> Yeah - it wants that filename... does it exist somewhere that
> the mopd can see?
> tcpdump/snoop groks mop_download, so you should be able
> to watch what's going on.

tcpdump -i eth3 mopdl gives

14:02:53.083044 8:0:2b:11:8f:99 ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 60:
                         1800 083c 0102 0953 4831 3630 3145 4e47
                         0090 0101 0191 0102 d405 0191 0102 d405
                         0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
14:02:53.083772 6f:0:0:0:0:0 8:0:2b:11:8f:99 mopdl 17:
                         0100 03

the tcpdump manpage notes that mopdl can't be parsed yet. But that looks
very much like "Do you have SH1601ENG?" "Yes".

hydra:/tftpboot/mop# ls -l SH1601ENG.SYS sh1601eng.sys 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Oct  3  2000 SH1601ENG.SYS -> sh1601eng.sys
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       580096 Oct  3  2000 sh1601eng.sys

This problem has happened before, but it seemed to correct itself.

>From the mopd manpage:
Upon receiving a request, mopd checks if the requested file exists in
/tftpboot/mop, the filename is normaly uppercase and with an extension of
.SYS. If the filename isn't given, the ethernet address of the target is
used as filename, e.g.  08002b09f4de.SYS and it might be a soft link to
another file.

*sigh*

It just looks like the decserver can't understand a simple "yes"

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