I have thought about that, so I connected the cable that was going to eth1 of the server that was not working to eth1 of one of my other servers. All thin clients booted up therefore I can conclude that something blew up in the motherboard. Thanks to everyone that tried to help
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: > I offer this story, quite uncertain of its utility, nonetheless... My thin > clients were working well last summer, then I replaced the switch with a new > switch... and could get only 1 or often none of the thin clients to > boot--couldn't connect to a DHCP server. Several people tried to find the > problem with the new switch, and it wasn't until a systems engineer looked > at it that he was able to properly configure it so that during the PXE > booting, the thin client could get it's IP address. I seem to recall him > saying it was something about the spanning tree protocol though don't > remember if that was just one of the things he checked or if that were the > issue... Good luck :-) > > David > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Nicolas Roussi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have formatted yet again the server and this time I installed 8.04 i386 >> thinking that this will resolve the issue since I have another on the LAN >> that works perfectly. After the 3rd client boots up I get the same thing No >> DHCP or no proxyDHCP offers received. Could it be that the network card or >> the motherboard blew something? >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Nicolas Roussi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am guessing that it is. I recently configured a bind9 server on the >>> network which is also the LDAP server but I disabled bind9. These are the >>> files on the server that is not working. I have included hosts, hostname, >>> interfaces, dhcpd.conf, ifconfig -a and resolv.conf. I am really puzzled >>> about this. The help is greatly appreciated. >>> >>> nico...@edubuntus2:~$ cat /etc/hosts >>> 127.0.0.1 edubuntuS2 localhost >>> 127.0.1.1 edubuntuS2.home edubuntuS2 >>> >>> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts >>> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback >>> fe00::0 ip6-localnet >>> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix >>> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes >>> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters >>> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts >>> >>> nico...@edubuntus2:~$ cat /etc/hostname >>> edubuntuS2 >>> >>> nico...@edubuntus2:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces >>> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system >>> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). >>> >>> # The loopback network interface >>> auto lo >>> iface lo inet loopback >>> >>> # The primary network interface >>> auto eth0 >>> iface eth0 inet dhcp >>> >>> auto eth1 >>> iface eth1 inet static >>> address 192.168.0.254 >>> netmask 255.255.255.0 >>> network 192.168.0.0 >>> broadcast 192.168.0.255 >>> >>> nico...@edubuntus2:~$ cat /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf >>> # >>> # Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file. >>> # >>> >>> authoritative; >>> >>> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { >>> range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250; >>> option domain-name "example.com"; >>> option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; >>> option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255; >>> option routers 192.168.0.1; >>> # next-server 192.168.0.1; >>> # get-lease-hostnames true; >>> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; >>> #option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386"; >>> option root-path "/opt/ltsp/amd64"; >>> if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = >>> "PXEClient" { >>> # filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0"; >>> filename "/ltsp/amd64/pxelinux.0"; >>> } else { >>> filename "/ltsp/amd64/nbi.img"; >>> # filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img"; >>> } >>> } >>> >>> nico...@edubuntus2:~$ ifconfig -a >>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:1b:4d:f8 >>> inet addr:192.168.2.85 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >>> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe1b:4df8/64 Scope:Link >>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:343737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:221723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >>> RX bytes:281611267 (268.5 MB) TX bytes:67461581 (64.3 MB) >>> Base address:0x2000 Memory:d4300000-d4320000 >>> >>> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:1b:4d:f9 >>> inet addr:192.168.0.254 Bcast:192.168.0.255 >>> Mask:255.255.255.0 >>> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe1b:4df9/64 Scope:Link >>> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:4271 (4.1 KB) >>> Base address:0x2020 Memory:d4320000-d4340000 >>> >>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >>> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host >>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >>> RX packets:29670 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >>> TX packets:29670 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >>> RX bytes:1507758 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:1507758 (1.4 MB) >>> nico...@edubuntus2:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf >>> nameserver 66.255.85.8 >>> nameserver 66.255.85.9 >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Gavin McCullagh <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Nicolas Roussi wrote: >>>> >>>> > No I am not. Also, on every sudo command it takes forever. >>>> >>>> Is your DNS working okay? >>>> >>>> Gavin >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nicolas Roussi >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nicolas Roussi >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >> >> > -- Nicolas Roussi
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