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- Number: A1TH090590U1949
- Subject: Two Connections for a Diskless Workstation
- Date: January 29, 1991
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: When you boot a diskless workstation, it establishes two
- connections to the file server.
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- 1) The boot PROM has just enough information to establish
- a connection and get the boot image file from the first
- file server. If that file server does not have a boot
- image file, it sends the message "Error receiving from
- file server" and attempts to establish another
- connection to a file server. If there is only one file
- server out there, it will keep getting the message
- "Error receiving from file server" until a response
- comes from a file server that has a boot image file in
- the LOGIN directory.
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- 2) If the boot image is correctly configured for the
- diskless machine and it has an AUTOEXEC.BAT file that
- loads the LAN driver and Netx, then it closes the
- connection made by the boot PROM and establishes a new
- connection with the file server. However, the watchdog
- timer does not free up the closed connection for about
- 15 to 20 minutes.
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- (X) This information was verified by Engineering.
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