James Van't Slot wrote:
Hi all,
I have the latest LTSP running on Redhat 7.3. I have several machines
that will not boot. I do however have one that does. Funny enough it
is the oldest of the bunch, an old 486/66.
None of the newer machines on the network seem to get past the:
Searching for server (DHCP)...
._
When I check /var/log/messages on the server, here is what I get...
Dec 1 15:25:22 bison dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:39:a7:46:3b via
Eth0
Dec 1 15:25:22 bison dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.5.104 to
00:00:39:a7:46:3b via eth0
And then nothing. I should be seeing DHCPREQUEST coming from
192.168.5.104 and then a DHCPACK coming back from the server.
Just like it does with that old 486.
I suspect a problem with the DHCP config so I've included it here:
[snip]
We had a similar problem. The newer machines were using pxe boot,
and in our case they were connected to a 10/100 switch with
tlan autosensing adapaters. Apparently, the pxe bios wasn't
intellegent enough to negotiate to 100mbs. So I changed the
machine bias settings to 100mbs/half-duplex as the default
mode and it worked fine. After the linux kernel starts, it
goes through a proper discovery process and will choose
half/full duplex depending on what the switch supports.
Hope that's helpful.
Regards... Tim
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