Blinking globe of doom

Here's my setup: 49 XServes, one as the head node of the cluster offering the services, DHCP, AFP, NFS, etc.
Previously, it would netboot the other XServes just fine.
I tweaked my NetRestore config and went to boot some of them to reimage them, and now NetBoot is no worky. The clients can all get the information about the available netboot volume and such, but when I hit restart, they sit at the blinking globe, and no message show up in the system.log of the head node.
I've made new image sets, restarted the service, twiddled with the settings, nothing.
All the machines have both their primary and secondary ethernet addresses in the filter list (most are G4s with the stock PCI ethernet card for the secondary).
But in the end, just that blinking globe.
And ideas?

Hi
You are not alone! See my message from yesterday (JohnW). My new Pearl 8120 does exactly the same. Seems to be a completely random happening. Often seems to happen right near the end of a long text mesage, on the other hand I have witnessed it when I was not even touching it. So far no-one has replied to my posting.
I too have done all the soft reset stuff. I have also powered down and left it alone overnight, but it still happens randomly and it takes quite a while to re-boot. Major irritation as far as I am concerned!!
Some one must have the answer...not even sure how you get an answer from the makers.
Let me know if you have any luck.

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