Jeff,

Do you have the workstations listed in the /etc/hosts file on the
server?

Also, on the server, can you do this:

    ifconfig -a

and send us the output, so we can see how your network is configured.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a trio of LTSP servers that all behave the same way. They're
> happy to work if the internet is plugged in, but if you unplug it, they
> fail to get NFS to their own internal terminal network, which is still
> perfectly well plugged.
>
> So here's the setup: Debian + LTSP (/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/version says
> 4.1.1). Each server has two nics, one for outside, one for inside. They
> work if everything networky is working, but if you pull the outside
> cable, the terminals boot, get the kernel, and then are unable to get
> NFS. You get the standard NFS-misconfigured error message. The
> interesting thing is that this is only true if the cable is pulled, not
> if you bring down the interface. So I added ifplugd and now you can pull
> the cable to the interface and it'll still work. But if there's a
> network fault farther upstream, it won't. There's a hub between it and
> the firewall, so if the cable dies between it and the firewall, or if
> the firewall goes down, we lose the ability to work on documents
> locally.
>
> Ah, it's worth noting, not only can new terminals not get NFS, old
> terminals slowly degrade into an unusable state and need to be rebooted.
> They do not, however, freeze immediately.
>
> I've watched the logs, I've even restarted mountd with debugging flags
> and I can't find anywhere where NFS is acknowledging in the logs that
> it's getting a request (either a confirm or a deny).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
>
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