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This is most import and single most common cause of network issues in big datacenters. Tags: solarisadmin. I have started unixadminschool. And the result is today's' unixadminschool. Other Learning Articles that you may like to read. Latest Articles.

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Anything I am overlooking? I have never ran into a problem before with Jumpstart and ARP timeouts that I haven't been able to quickly fix, until now. Since the Sun Blade hasn't been configured with network information, it need to get that infomation from the network.

Thanks CA. And the xx. When the client does a boot net - install, how does it identify the BIS? I realize that not all of them are Solaris machines, but it has to identify the machine it will use as the BIS? So what you have is your server has the mac address of the client and an ip address which you assigned on your server.

When you boot net - install on the client it sends an ARP address resolution protocol request saying is there anyone out there that has an address to go with my mac id. The server responds with the RARP reverse address resolution protocol answer saying yes I have an ip for that mac id and here it is. This is one of the most commonly occurring issue in jumpstart installation. If there is no response for 5 Minutes, you can be certain that there is a problem. Check in. This daemon is responsible for responding to jumpstart clients with its IP address.

To restart in. Solaris 10 :. For this run a snoop command on the interface that should receive the RARP requests.