* Michael Blinn <[email protected]> [2010-07-18 09:10]: > Thank you - but no. "2nd DHCP address" refers to the 2nd time the one card > does a DHCP request. As I understand it, the first is for TFTP, the 2nd is > when we bring up the network interface.
The second one is done from "within" the initrd, when the actual Linux system (kernel + stuff on the initrd) is running and asks for an IP address. This means that sometimes the 1st (PXE) DHCP request works well and then the 2nd one doesn't because 1) there's no driver for the network card or 2) there are 2 network cards and the Linux system does the request from the wrong one or 3) there's a DHCP relay involved and the request goes out via DHCP client strangely so that the relay doesn't work, or ... > I'm leaning toward this being a race condition issue, as I've found that > gPXE only works about 1 out of every 4 times. Perhaps 'regular' PXE works 1 > out of every 4 boots as well, however I've never managed to get PXE to boot > at all. Whatever "gPXE" does differently, the 2nd request should still come from the Linux system that has been started via TFTP at that point (AFAICS). If you want to digg into it, you could try tweaking the stuff included on the initrd, but I don't really know if it will lead you anywhere. Good luck + let us know if you find the culprit. Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
