Hello,
We've tried that and still unsuccessful. This time, the download
progress shows a little longer. Towards the end of the first line of
dowmload progress, it just stops, and the client hangs. We've even tried
removing our 3com card and using the built-in eepro100 instead. The
result was similar.


suhardi

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> 
> Din,
> 
> I've seen a problem in the past, where the kernel starts to
> download, and then it stops.
> 
> In my case, adding '-r blksize' to the tftpd command line
> solved the problem.
> 
> Without the '-r blksize', the tftp client and the tftp server
> will try to negotiate a blocksize of somewhere around 1500
> bytes.  This can cause problems, especially if your MTU
> isn't set at 1500.
> 
> Anyway, adding the '-r blksize' to the server_args line
> of /etc/xinetd.d/tftp will cause the tftpd to reject the block
> size negotiation, falling back to the old standard 512 byte
> blocks.
> 
> With the short blocksize, there will be 3 times as many blocks,
> but it happens so quickly, it doesn't make that much of a
> difference.
> 
> Anyway, give it a try, don't forget to restart xinetd, and
> report back what the results are.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Izauddin Mohd Isa wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > This may not be a ltsp problem, but I thought maybe someone might have
> > across
> > this problem already.
> >
> > We are setting up a thin client lab using ltsp 3.0 running on redhat
> > 7.3. Setting up the
> > ltsp on the server is no problem, but the client cannot boot from the sever.
> >
> > The client is a Compaq Deskpro SB Evo D380m. It came with a built-in intel
> > eepro 100 nic. ( the pc have pxe in it ). Since we want to use the
> > etherboot boot
> > rom, we install another 3com 3c905B with the 5.0.6 etherboot boot rom in
> > the
> > client.
> >
> > the problem is the boot rom is working well and can detect the 3c905B nic,
> > search for the DHCP server, connected and get an ip address, after
> > getting the
> > ip address and located the kernel file, starting to download the kernel
> > and it
> > hang. It hang at the kernel download section ( at the ........ after the
> > (NBI) .
> >
> > Running ethereal at the server show that the client seem to lost the ip
> > address
> > that it get from the DHCP server, because after the doing tftp to the
> > client until
> > data block 9 it stop tftp and doing arp asking where is the client ip
> > address.
> >
> > When we try to use a boot floppy, by taking out 3c905B nic it give the same
> > problem as above. We put another pc ( Dell ) and boot it using the 3c905B or
> > a boot floppy, it can boot the kernel and ltsp fine.
> >
> > Anybody have encounter this ? any solution ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Regards
> > Din
> >
> >
> >
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