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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
