What OS are you running on the Sun? What daemons? The Sun OS's don't ship configured to run DHCP (but they can be made to do so). I'm guessing your base problem is something eating up the router's CPU or routing bandwidth. Is there a lot of activity on any of the ports? I had a problem like that where the router sporadically issued a RARP request for every possible IP address on its network. The Sun would then get curious and issue a DNS lookup for these nonexistent machines (via, of course, the router). This would circulate and multiply (and cost me money, as my link was per-minute (curse you bananex) and my ISP connectivity was also per-minute (curse you screw-Unet).
Huh. Apparently no OS, which would explain why it's trying to do bootp or something. (I finally found out how to interrupt the boot process and ask the ROM monitor what commands it knows, and it told me there was no boot drive on the SCSI port. Guess I should've opened the case and looked before assuming I could just power it up and go.) Whoops.
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to run DHCP (but they can be made to do so). I'm guessing your base problem is something
eating up the router's CPU or routing bandwidth. Is there a lot of activity on any of the
ports? I had a problem like that where the router sporadically issued a RARP request for
every possible IP address on its network. The Sun would then get curious and issue a
DNS lookup for these nonexistent machines (via, of course, the router). This would
circulate and multiply (and cost me money, as my link was per-minute (curse you
bananex) and my ISP connectivity was also per-minute (curse you screw-Unet).
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