Yes, I know.  I tried everything in this page, and then some.  That's
where I got most of these parameters that I tried to pass.

Thank you, though, but does anyone have anything that I can try that is
not on that page?

I'd really appreciate any help.

fp


John P. New wrote:
> Peter,
>
> This happens when you have a (relatively) slower NIC in the client attached 
> to 
> a (relatively) faster switch/router.
>
> See http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NFS#NFS_Server_not_responding
>
> John P. New
>
> On May 8, 2007 01:27 pm, HM Peter wrote:
>   
>> Greetings.
>>
>> We just bought a bunch of 3Com Baseline 2824 and 2816-SFP Plus Switches
>> and 1000Base-SX SFP Fiber Optics modules.  We installed them a last
>> Friday, and boy have they improved our network performance.  Everything
>> is working a lot faster.
>>
>> However, we have several LinkSys LNE100TX network cards with PXE eproms
>> from DisklessWorkstations.com that don't seem to like the new switches.
>>  All of the other workstations work fine.  These, however, boot up to
>> the point where it tries to mount nfs.  Then I get:
>>
>> eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of c5e1.
>> nfs: server 192.168.1.6 not responding, still trying
>> nfs: server 192.168.1.6 not responding, still trying
>> nfs: server 192.168.1.6 not responding, still trying
>>
>> And it just hangs.  /var/log/messages doesn't give any messages, either.
>>
>> If I run these workstations through our old Netgear GS108 switches, they
>> work, albiet still slowly.
>>
>> I've tried passing all sorts of different kernel parameters without any
>> success.  I've tried various combinations of the following:
>>
>> MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048
>> NFSOPTS="-o nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048"
>> NFSOPTS="-o nolock,ro,proto=tcp"
>> NFSOPTS="-o etx"
>> VID=1317 NIC=0985
>> NICOPT=options=5
>>
>> I think it has to do with needing to pass the Tulip driver some
>> parameters, but I can't seem to figure out what.
>>
>> Does anybody have any idea what might get these cards working again?
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated very much.
>>
>> With kind regards,
>>
>> Peter, hieromonk
>>     



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