I don't know what your trying to netboot from.. But general experience says a good ethernet sniffer program on that box is VERY useful. (ethereal, tcpdump, snoop, etc..) Just watch the packets, see what the client is asking for, and give it to it. Presuming you've got those files configured correctly.. My first two guesses would be: A) You have the respective daemons running? B) TFTPD running? If the "netboot server" is a Linux box, there's also some ephemeral ports voodoo you need to do. (From the Linux/MIPS FAQ: The kernel download from the TFTP server stops and times out. This may happen if the TFTP server is using a local port number of 32768 or higher which usually happens if the TFTP server is running Linux 2.3 or higher. This problem may be circumvented by doing a "echo 2048 32767 ) I managed to figure out how to netboot an Indy w/ Irix 6.5 from a linux box w/ a reasonable amount of time spent in ethereal. (I suppose I could of read the manuals, but where's the fun in that? ) David On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 06:56, Benjamin Gardiner wrote: