Very short description of problem.
Trying to boot over the net,
Followed all the steps in the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide,
get an error message upon doing a boot net that sais
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet.
Solution:
in the ethers map, make *ABSOLUTELY* sure that you do *NOT* specify
trailing 0's in the ethernet adresses for your machine
(and use lower case hex only)
I had
0a:0b:0c:dd:ee:ff
in /etc/ethers
this should have been
a:b:c:dd:ee:ff
[insert frustrated screams, sounds of fists pounding on the wall]
what's even worse is that if you arp -a you will get the address back as
0a:0b:0c:dd:ee:ff
Thanks very much to Casper who gave the correct solution,
also muchos thanks to all the others who supplied helpfull suggestions,
hints, tips and shared stories of similar woes
[while the latter didn't help with the problem, they did relieve ;) ]
Kind regards,
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