Hi all:

I have a very strange problem.  I have a working LTSP 4.2 setup.  Our
network infrastructure is built around HP Procurve switches.  We have
our primary LTSP server in our machine room, and thin clients in two
buildings throughout the building.  All this works fine.

Then, one of our labs was rewired and a Netgear GSM7224 managed
gigabit switch was installed.  I took a working thin client from
another space and plugged it into this new switch setup.  It was able
to PXE boot, but when the NFS root was mounted, it just scrolled
"<nfs_server_ip> Not responding, still trying...".  If I unplug the
thin client from the netgear and plug it into a drop from the HP
switch, it works fine.  I can usually wait until GDM shows up, then
move it back, and it will continue to work until the thin client gets
rebooted.

I have tested:

1) Wyse thin client on netgear, server in machine room;
2) Old PC PXEboot on netgear, server in machine room.
3) Old PC connected to "dumb switch" plugged into netgear, server in
machine room.
4) Old PC connected to negear, test server also on netgear

All these fail.  Interestingly enough, old PC on HP switch with server
on netgear works.

We have many workstations on the netgear switch, all of wich are NFS
mounting without issue.  It only seems to be LTSP 4.2 that has a
problem.  We can't upgrade to LTSP5, as the change in model forces us
to violate one of our core requirements: RHEL/CentOS base (required
for apps we're running).

Any suggestions?  I have no idea what to start tweaking on the netgear...


--Jim

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