Depending on the switch, it may be a "spanning-tree" or Cable Looping prevention scheme kicking in.
I ran into this on my lab bench since I was using a new, unconfigured switch. --Pat On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Erik Myllymaki wrote: > I am thinking it might be a networking issue - I have just purchased a > managed switch, so can anyone explain how to force 100Mb/Full duplex for > a thinkNIC client - eepro100 I think? > > > Erik Myllymaki wrote: > > > I have a dozen ThinkNICs using LTSP4. They do not always want to boot > > up. They will all boot up, but sometimes I have to reboot them a dozen > > times before they do. A typical boot where they fail starts like a > > successful boot but the whole PXE/tftp process moves at a snail's pace. > > > > During a successful boot the following lines would normally be too > > fast to read, but during a failed session they are printed to the > > screen at a rate of one line per 15 seconds or so, finally hanging > > when it gets to a matching entry for the file in the pxelinux.cfg > > directory: > > > > PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9E54:00F9 > > > > MY ip address seems to be C0xxxxxx 192.168.0.3 > > IP=192.168.x.x:192.168.0.200:192.168.0.200:255.255.255.0 > > TFTP prefix: /lts/2.4.24-ltsp-1/ > > Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0xxxxxx > > Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0xxxxx > > Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0xxxx > > Loading > > ... > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
