Hi All, Currently I have the Solaris DHCP server setup to answer PXE boot requests and allow machines to JumpStart or KickStart.
I recently installed a new switch to increase capacity (ports and backplane) and I can't be sure if it happenned at the same time but the PXE boots seem to be behaving differently now. On one set of machines that are directly connected to the same switch that the DHCP server is connected to, the Broadcom PXE boot banner spins for a while and prints 5 '.' before getting an answer. On another set of machines that is actually 1 switch away it takes 3 '.' before a response is seen. I remember this process being much quicker in the past. This is all with no DHCP relaying, and all on the same subnet. Snoop for some reason doesn't show a 'discover' request until late also and shows an answer for the first request seen, so if the PXE rom is sending out requests the whole time the spinner is spinning, then I don't see them coming through on the server. Where could they be getting lost and why? I guess I shouldn't complain, since eventually it gets through. -Kyle
