Interesting.  But would that prevent all traffic?  I see the DHCP Request
coming from the one laptop, and the other one is obviously up and running
already.  There's just never a DHCP Offer.

I'll take a look when I get a chance.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Will McDonald <wmcdon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you'd prefer to put the Cisco switch back in, check the spanning
> tree config on the port the host was connected to and try switching it
> to PortFast.
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_tech_note09186a00800b1500.shtml
>
> I've seen that cause lots of problems with DHCP where the client times
> out before the switch port's fully up.
> Cheers,
>
> Will.
>
> On 16 August 2012 21:32, Bai Shen <baishen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Turns out it was the Cisco switch.  I replaced it with a Linksys
> unmanaged
> > one and it came right up.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Bai Shen <baishen.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have two Dell laptops that I'm testing Cobbler on.  When I boot into
> >> linux, I can get an ip from the dhcp server running on the cobbler box.
> >> However, it never seems to respond to the PXE request for an ip.
> >>
> >> Is there something I can look at or setting to change?  I'm not sure why
> >> it will provide an ip under linux but not for a PXE boot.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >
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