[Oscar-users] Oscar1.2.1on rh7.2 : dhclient Q

[Atish Chowdhury]

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Hi all,

I was trying oscar1.21rh72 atop RedHat 7.2. Things
went well, till I needed my client to be booted.
It could boot the kernel/initrd.gz all right (via PXE/ boot floppy)
but dchlient failed to get any response back from the
server (It could send the DHCPREQUESTS).

The DHCP server was running fine, though. (I could use
a different machine and a different dhcp client to get appropriate
responses) I saw a previous posting on the mailing list, mentioning
the same problem. I did make sure (as above) that the server
is configured fine.

My client node is a dual Athlon on a Tyan Thunder K7, using
3COM's 3c59x for it's network interface. Does it pose any compatibility problem with the boot kernel ? ( I would rather like to believe that I am missing something :))

Has anyone come across this problem/know the solution ?
Would really love to have some suggestions.

On a related note, if I replace the supplied "initrd.gz" and "kernel" with custom ram disks (having some other working dhcp clients) and kernel, can I simply include the nodename.sh script in the ramdisk and pass control to it? Is it an acceptable workaround or does that script have dependencies on the ramdisk/kernel supplied with the distribution? 'Appreciate some advice on this.

-thanks in advance,
Atish



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