If you'd prefer to put the Cisco switch back in, check the spanning tree config on the port the host was connected to and try switching it to PortFast.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_tech_note09186a00800b1500.shtml I've seen that cause lots of problems with DHCP where the client times out before the switch port's fully up. Cheers, Will. On 16 August 2012 21:32, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > Turns out it was the Cisco switch. I replaced it with a Linksys unmanaged > one and it came right up. > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have two Dell laptops that I'm testing Cobbler on. When I boot into >> linux, I can get an ip from the dhcp server running on the cobbler box. >> However, it never seems to respond to the PXE request for an ip. >> >> Is there something I can look at or setting to change? I'm not sure why >> it will provide an ip under linux but not for a PXE boot. >> >> Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
