On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 01:49 -0700, teklay gebremichael wrote: > hello, > I have a session server for thin clients to connect to. the session server > has 2 NICs(one connecting to the organization switching infrastucture and the > other one to the thin client network/subnet only). i have connected one cisco > 2960 switch (new switch with default confg) to connect the sun rays and the > thin stations to the server. > sun ray DTUs are working perfectly. > > I have also thin stations that are connected to the session server like the > sun rays. > with the thin station, the pxe boot doesn't work on the first trial and works > on the second boot. again i tried tried with old pcs to boot from the server > and yet not working at all. > > but, i took another scenario that i have connected the server directly to the > thin station with out a switch and it boots on the first trial and the boot > process is a bit faster. > and i tried it with the old pc and it is able to boot from the server > directly with out the switch in between. > > again i tried the case with another cisco switch and i got the same thing > (not working). > > since we are planning to have computer lab with old pcs that will boot from > the server, this problem is very critical. is there some thing enabled by > default on the switch that prevents booting from the network? > > i appreciate your help in advance.
Have a look at the following thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/pxe-server-issue-why-do-i-need-to-enable-port-fast-556008/ Regards, Jeroen van Ingen ICT Service Centre University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
