Seewer Philippe ([email protected]) said: > While testing in our production environment, I discovered > that the time between interface configuration and trying to mount the nfs > root is too short if the dhcp-server provides an mtu. Having to set a mtu > means that netroot > executes 'ip link down', set's the mtu and the does > 'ip link up' again. > > This results in the mount error "No route to host", because > the network equipment has not had enough time to "shake hands". The patch > below adds a sleep 1 after interface configuration, to give the equipment > enough time.
Depending on your switch configuration, the time for the switch to start passing traffic again on link bounce couuld be anywhere from 0.1 seconds to 20 seconds... Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
