On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:13:31PM +0200, Bent wrote:
[...]
> It started being reliable when I changed the network configuration
> from DHCP to static IP and it stayed stable when I went back to
> GRUB. The root cause may have been that the NIC did not always
> come up reliably using DHCP.
[...]
It is not uncommon for some switches (Cisco Catalysts, as an
example) to have a lengthy default dampening on all port link up
events. I have seen this cause fast-booting devices to give up
waiting for a DHCP response before the switch even allows the port
to pass any frames at all...
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