Hi Gavin, On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:33:09PM +0900, Gavin Tran wrote: > I've been using FAI to setup 8 clusters of Debian 3.1 Sarge. > Everything went fine until it reach the DHCP requests error. > > Sending DHCP requests .... timed out ! > IP-Config : Reopening network devices.... > > The DHCP server got my client IP address at first, for example 192.168.11.7
That's PXE I guess? > But then client couldn't reach the server. It sounds a little bit strange. Network interface mis-configured? > I have read another thread in which had same problem. I heard that > there was problem with Cisco switch in working with FAI so I've tried > to change to another hub , switch, but the problem is still there. > My ethernet card is SysKonnect Marvell (sk98lin). I've recompiled > kernel with sk98lin server integrated permanently. Please run with additional VTs, and check with ifconfig whether you got an interface at all. I remember that sk98lin had certain problems in a few kernels, up-/downgrading did help. You might also look for strange kernel errors - and run ethereal on your server. In recent kernels, there is also a replacement driver (skge) which you may try (what model of SK are you using?) Cheers, Steffen