On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Joey Officer wrote: > also, go ahead and add the entries to the hosts file, it won't hurt and > it'll be nice, clean and uniform.
I will try this. However, the dots come slow and steady on tftp boot - is it doing a lookup every packet ? > when you say daisy chained together, are you using a cross over cable, or a > specific cable design for daisy chaining the switches (similiar to a SCSI > cable) New switches autodetect - so, a regular cable between the switches. a CNet - made in Taiwan - perhaps I should have one bigger switch. > also, does the workstations from one switch work better than the > workstations from the second switch? I had this problem as well, using two > small switches ultimately gave me tons of problems, I ended up buying a > 24port from netgear and all my problems went away > i had this problem before, but it was a cable I was using, it kept shorting > out, which ultimately took the hub I was using and dumped it No reason to buy hubs today. > just my thoughts.. joey Thank you. Cheers, Andy! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andy Rabagliati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LTSP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:13 AM > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] very slow boot > > > > I also observe this behaviour. > > > > I have a 512Meg server, two 8 port switches daisy-chained, > > 8 identical client computers - with identical rtl8139 cards > > with boot ROMs, 100Mbit all round. > > > > DHCP comes from another small server, tftp comes from > > the big one. > > > > Usually, everything is fine. > > > > But under some circumstances, usually including plenty of > > people using the computers, I get the slow boot. > > > > It does not seem to be workstation-specific. > > > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The boot process should only take between 20 and 30 seconds. > > > > Indeed, usually it is quick. > > > > > There are several phases of the boot process. > > > > > > During the tftp, you should see dots (.) streaming across the > > > screen. Do you see that ? If so, do they stream quickly ? > > > > They stream steadily and slowly. > > > > > Once the tftp is done, the kernel starts running. Do the kernel > > > messages scroll quickly on the screen ? > > > > No, they scroll slowly - sometimes as much as 20 secs between > > lines saying "Mounting /proc". > > > > > Are there messages on the screen at certain points where it seems > > > to pause ? > > > > It seems to all accounts like it is running at a very slow link speed, > > as everything completes. > > > > After the xdm login, all seems to be quick again. > > > > > Are your workstations listed in the /etc/hosts file ? This can > > > cause several pauses, while various services are trying to map > > > a hostname to go along with the IP address. > > > > No, I have reverse DNS setup. > > > > Cheers, Andy! > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T > > handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
