With network boot of diskless stations ping of network interface ip which was received via DHCP failed. How-To-Repeat: Boot diskless station from NFS server and try to ping machines itself network interface ip. F.Ex.: helium#/home/vortex>ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=9843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK0,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=2049<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:30:48:21:8f:b2 inet 10.12.33.171 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 10.12.33.191 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active helium#/home/vortex>ping -c 5 10.12.33.171 PING 10.12.33.171 (10.12.33.171): 56 data bytes --- 10.12.33.171 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss No problems with others hosts and from others hosts: helium:/home/vortex>ping -c 2 hydrogen PING hydrogen (10.12.33.170): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.12.33.170: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.967 ms 64 bytes from 10.12.33.170: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.004 ms --- hydrogen ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.967/0.986/1.004/0.018 ms hydrogen:/home/vortex>ping -c 2 helium PING helium (10.12.33.171): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.12.33.171: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.928 ms 64 bytes from 10.12.33.171: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.957 ms --- helium ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.928/1.942/1.957/0.015 ms
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