David,

Can you try turning off 'Spanning Tree' support in the switch?

I used to see this type of behaviour, and that would usually fix it.

Jim McQuillan
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On 09/16/2010 10:58 AM, David Burgess wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 server
> LTSP 5.x
> 14 thin clients
> Cisco switches
> multiple vlans (tc all on single vlan)
> Windows Server 2008 doing dhcp (via ip helper AFAIK)
>
> My LTSP network was functioning beautifully, with clients
> automatically booting each morning and shutting down each evening.
> It's been at least a month since I have touched anything in the
> configuration.
>
> Two days ago our network admins replaced an aging core switch
> (4506>4506E) and now none of my thin clients will complete a boot. I
> see the PXE screen, the tc gets its reserved IP address and initrd
> appears to load completely. The Ubuntu splash screen appears and stays
> eternally. If I hit escape I see an endless loop of
>
> udhcpc[847]: udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
> udhcpc[847]: sending discover...
> udhcpc[847]: sending discover...
> udhcpc[847]: sending discover...
> udhcpc[847]: No lease, failing.
> udhcpc[848]: udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
>
> Given the circumstances I am convinced that this is a network
> configuration problem, but I cannot convince the network admin of
> this, since nobody else is complaining and dhcp appears to be working
> normally on every workstation and server.
>
> Can somebody please give me a hint of what exactly is failing here and
> where we should be looking for the solution? Unfortunately I have no
> access to the core switch configuration, so extensive investigation is
> not likely to occur unless I can convince the network admin that he
> has caused the problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> db
>
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