We have our switches set for "spanning-tree portfast" and have not had an issue with stateful installs on the R640 and UEFI.
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Today's Topics: 1. subscribe (John McCulloch) 2. pxe boot timeout (John McCulloch) 3. Re: pxe boot timeout (Sam Davis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:12:50 +0000 From: John McCulloch <[email protected]> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Subject: [xcat-user] subscribe Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" subscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 22:21:02 +0000 From: John McCulloch <[email protected]> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Subject: [xcat-user] pxe boot timeout Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am troubleshooting an image load issue on a new install. When attempting to download the diskless image / hostname.uefi file, the client returns "Connection timed out (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ipxe.org_4c0a6012&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjvyqPD27dPR2eKsAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7UlnAD37O06zM3WcmCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=nPaMQ4D_YRhmMtSo0N4uoQqVTmMoniFY3l7FoyjW_FA&e= )" In the past we've had this sort of issue with spanning-tree running on the switch. We have configured the switch with all ports set to "spanning-tree rstp edge-port" xCAT is running in a VM on a Dell R640 Red Hat Virtualization host. The client compute node is a Dell C6420 The client NIC is a BRCM GbE 4P 5720-t rNDC >From a Dell R640 on the same network we're able to retrieve the hostname.uefi >file: [root@apollo-m-01 ~]# wget http://<address>:80/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi --2019-06-12 16:59:28-- http://<address>/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi Connecting to <address>:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 113 Saving to: 'apollo-g-01.uefi' 100%[===================================================================================================================================>] 113 --.-K/s in 0s 2019-06-12 16:59:28 (18.9 MB/s) - 'apollo-g-01.uefi' saved [113/113] [root@apollo-m-01 ~]# cat apollo-g-01.uefi #!gpxe chain https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__-24-257Bnext-2Dserver-257D-3A80_tftpboot_xcat_elilo-2Dx64.efi&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjvyqPD27dPR2eKsAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7UlnAD37O06zM3WcmCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=oByXz7yoYyAflDTRSojkqD9NnXITpxwebPeJjyHliTI&e= -C /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.elilo<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__-24-257bnext-2Dserver-257d-3A80_tftpboot_xcat_elilo-2Dx64.efi-2520-2DC-2520_tftpboot_xcat_xnba_nodes_apollo-2Dg-2D01.elilo&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjvyqPD27dPR2eKsAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7UlnAD37O06zM3WcmCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=5ZwPTcG2-Mu3pJ_fF1LsYrv8f9rmLUwP3scyprGlxBA&e= > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, John McCulloch PCPC Direct, Ltd. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:30:02 -0400 From: Sam Davis <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] pxe boot timeout Message-ID: <cap4npjjntfkw0ge9jx8kofx5+m74lwg4ikhyv7o1ay97zvd...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I had what sounds like the same issue on a Dell 6420. We had to update the bios and use BIOS boot mode instead of UEFI. Sam Davis Kennesaw State University On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 6:21 PM John McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote: > I am troubleshooting an image load issue on a new install. > > > > When attempting to download the diskless image / hostname.uefi file, > the client returns "Connection timed out > (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ipxe.org_4c0a6012&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjvyqPD27dPR2eKsAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7UlnAD37O06zM3WcmCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=nPaMQ4D_YRhmMtSo0N4uoQqVTmMoniFY3l7FoyjW_FA&e= > )" > > > > In the past we?ve had this sort of issue with spanning-tree running on > the switch. > > We have configured the switch with all ports set to ?spanning-tree > rstp edge-port? > > > > xCAT is running in a VM on a Dell R640 Red Hat Virtualization host. > > The client compute node is a Dell C6420 > > The client NIC is a BRCM GbE 4P 5720-t rNDC > > > > From a Dell R640 on the same network we're able to retrieve the > hostname.uefi file: > > > > [root@apollo-m-01 ~]# wget http:// > <address>:80/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi > > --2019-06-12 16:59:28-- http:// > <address>/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi > > Connecting to <address>:80... connected. > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > > Length: 113 > > Saving to: ?apollo-g-01.uefi? > > > > 100%[===================================================================================================================================>] > 113 --.-K/s in 0s > > > > 2019-06-12 16:59:28 (18.9 MB/s) - ?apollo-g-01.uefi? saved [113/113] > > [root@apollo-m-01 ~]# cat apollo-g-01.uefi > > #!gpxe > > chain > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__-24-257Bnext-2Dser > ver-257D-3A80_tftpboot_xcat_elilo-2Dx64.efi&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjv > yqPD27dPR2eKsAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7Uln > AD37O06zM3WcmCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=oByXz7yoYyAflDTRSojkqD9NnXITpxwebPeJjy > HliTI&e= -C /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.elilo > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > John McCulloch > > PCPC Direct, Ltd. > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.sourceforge > .net_lists_listinfo_xcat-2Duser&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjvyqPD27dPR2eK > sAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7UlnAD37O06zM3Wc > mCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=1_zZe5Wtk0YJSyMfwcCmNlS5M8ZrflgMyLBD5-jCRO0&e= > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.sourceforge.net_lists_listinfo_xcat-2Duser&d=DwICAg&c=CRKael6LgVt5xjvyqPD27dPR2eKsAMw5_UGvkEk3eUY&r=Am91YONzH6JLZR4o83toyw&m=CxT8cDaooh7UlnAD37O06zM3WcmCFSJ3ccRpcLzOm8U&s=1_zZe5Wtk0YJSyMfwcCmNlS5M8ZrflgMyLBD5-jCRO0&e= ------------------------------ End of xCAT-user Digest, Vol 118, Issue 8 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
