Hi all,
I have a very strange error, all the workstations at one of my sites
hang while downloading the kernel from tftp. They always stop exactly on
the third dot.
A few do download the kernel, then hang after running dhclient,
complaining that �either there was no response from dhcp, or the NIC
driver does not work well with the card.�
The server in question, was working perfectly in my office three days
ago.
I have one intel ether-express pro 100 with a bootrom on site, that
fails to find dhcp in the first place.
A realtek 8139 with a bootrom, that�s the one that downloads the kernel,
then hangs.
The others are all 3com cards, with boot-floppies (lsdisk). The machines
also have on-board e100 cards, using boot disks for EITHER card, hangs
on the third dot from tftp.
I tried different workstations as well (without on-boards) no luck.
Any idea what�s going on here ? A quick check confirms that DHCP is
running on bond0.
The switch btw. shows connect status but no traffic, pretty much ever.
Sometimes, you can ping the server from a laptop on the same switch,
sometimes not.
There is NO firewalling software on the server. I cannot imagine network
card failure, because of the bonding, if any of the four cards in the
server was still active, it should have worked.
Any ideas ?
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