You are experiencing to the 'T' exactly what we were. This is a known
issue with that version of Etherboot not resetting something properly on
the NIC after initializing and downloading the kernel which causes
spurious interrupts to occur and thus panic the kernel. You need to
either upgrade
Advice I have been given is that if network traffic exceeds 15 - 20%
theoretical, the number of collisions will increase exponentially, and
completely clog the network. With a hub, all clients will see all ather
clients traffic, and delay their transmission untill quiet, then several
clients will
I've got occasional Kernel Panic during client's boot up.
The ratio of successful attempts to unsuccessful is about 2:1.
See the console messages below (I type it in manually :-0 ):
Unknown Flash Type
Bootrom v1.4
Etherboot/32 v4.5.8 (GPL) For more info, visit
www.DisklessWorkstations.Com
ROM
