From: Michael Edwards; Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM > >Anyway, I am playing with a 3Com 3c2000 series card which comes packaged >with its own driver software. When you install the driver module the card >sends and recieves data successfully. When I was trying to turn off the >onboard fast ethernet card to remove possible confusion (never did figure >out how to do that) I noticed that the bios could see the gigabit card and >claimed it could pxe boot it. I was very happy and tried adding that >machine to my cluster.
OK, so you have a cluster built with OSCAR, correct? Has the dhcp and/or tftp configs changes (outside adding the new node's MAC addr)? Could you rebuild a node that has already worked, i.e., without the 3COM card, to validate the server configuration is still correct? This will either point to the 3COM-based system or the server -- having said that, I have seen some cases where the DHCP configs don't work with some NICs. >It successfully booted to the network card, successfully sent its mac to >the server, I collected it and assigned it an IP. Rebooted again and it >successfully talked to the DHCP server and got its IP. Then it tried to >connect with TFTP and get the immage and timed out. Can you capture the exact text displayed on the console? A serial console and minicom will help here. Adding some "-v" options to the tftp invocation (/etc/xinetd.d/tftp) and/or looking at the log file may help, too. >Clearly the card is working, and clearly it is communicating with the >server, so I am confused as to why TFTP would not connect. Is this a >pfilter issue or is the BIOS just almost, but not quite, good enough to get >through? I have a version of the mkbootdisk script but I have been having >trouble getting it to run even with Benoit's fairly specific directions. So, the question is, did tftp actually connect and the timeout occur during the download, or did the timeout occur waiting for tftp to respond at all? -- David N. Lombard My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
