Because of the lightening strike, i'd suspect that the switches are faulty.
Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > Folks, > > After a painful, remote maintenance nightmare after a lighning > strike and new hard disks were courier'ed to the school, I am > nearly there but for one (major) problem. > > The network (35 clients) will not boot. > > I get this in the logs :- > > Jul 21 20:47:12 eshigh dhcpd: 5 bad IP checksums seen in 5 packets > Jul 21 20:47:48 eshigh last message repeated 2 times > > I am not there - I am working on it with the school teacher > who has difficulty typing "pppd call wizzy" and we communicate > via a "ntalk" window. > > System :- 2 Thin Client servers, NFS-mounting home dirs off > a "wizzy" box that handles all central services, like DHCP > and TFTP and named and dialup. > > Dhcp version: dhcp-3.0pl2-6.14 > > So - the Servers are not involved at this time (booting) - that > all comes off the "wizzy" box. > > Operating system: Whitebox Respin 1 - a RHEL clone. > > Packages as far as possible completely stock. > > Two 24 + 2 (GigE) port CNET switches, daisy-chained through > the GigE links. > > GigE card, r8169, plugged into GigE port, new, untested. > > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf says this :- > > class: NETWORK > bus: PCI > detached: 0 > device: eth0 > driver: r8169 > desc: "Realtek|RTL-8169" > vendorId: 10ec > deviceId: 8169 > subVendorId: 1371 > subDeviceId: 434e > pciType: 1 > pcibus: 0 > pcidev: a > pcifn: 0 > > I can ssh in to other (local-boot) computers on the network - > the two Thin Client servers, a print server, with no problems. > > Those servers successfully mount /home from this box. > > No firewall on the "wizzy" box. > > Google tells me nothing. > > Ideas, anybody ? > > Cheers, Andy! > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&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 > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&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
