On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:33:09PM +0900, Gavin Tran wrote: > I've been using FAI to setup 8 clusters of Debian 3.1 Sarge. > Everything went fine until it reach the DHCP requests error. > > Sending DHCP requests .... timed out ! > IP-Config : Reopening network devices.... > > The DHCP server got my client IP address at first, for example > 192.168.11.7 > > But then client couldn't reach the server. It sounds a little bit > strange. > > I have read another thread in which had same problem. I heard that > there was problem with Cisco switch in working with FAI so I've tried > to change to another hub , switch, but the problem is still there. My > ethernet card is SysKonnect Marvell (sk98lin). I've recompiled kernel > with sk98lin server integrated permanently. > > Any suggestions for that problem.
I'm curious: are you using a gigabit ethernet switch? You will have problems with DHCP for PXE booting when using a gigabit ethernet switch with a gigabit ethernet card. I still don't have a workaround for this. Any tips on how to get this combination working would be greatly appreciated. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price.