Sorry to be so slow, I have been teaching and not working on LTSP. <div>On 12/9/06, Sudev Barar <<a href="mailto:sbarar@gmail.com">sbarar@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/12/06, Bruce Anderson <<a href="mailto:bruce.g.anderson@gmail.com">bruce.g.anderson@gmail.com </a>> wrote: > I think I did a pretty default installation of K12LTSP version 4.4.1 from > CDs on a VALinux 1220 (dual 800 MHz PIIIs with 2048MB and two 18 GB scsci > drives). Bruce can you describe your network and confirm you are using 100mbps switches and not hubs?</blockquote><div> Between my experimental LTSP server and my experimental client I have a direct connect crossover cable no hub, now switch; the message on the client boot screen indicates 100Mbps full-duplex and /var/log/messages on the server says the same. The network may be a problem - I am not really clear how different networks interact. In my classroom I have a server (not the LTSP one) that is between the school LAN and my classroom LAN. That classroom server has <a href="http://10.6.44.1">10.6.44.1</a> mask <a href="http://255.255.0.0">255.255.0.0</a> on eth0 connected to the school and <a href="http://192.168.44.1">192.168.44.1</a> mask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a> connected to a 10/100 switch for 36 computers in my classroom. All the classroom computers are 192.168.44.x My LTSP server is <a href="http://192.168.44.57">192.168.44.57</a> on eth1 by dhcp from the classroom server and is <a href="http://192.168.0.254">192.168.0.254</a> on eth0 which directly connects to the client. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I installed an Aopen AON-325 network card from DisklessWorkstations.com on a > VALinux 420 (700 MHz Celeron). > > It takes my new LTSP server a long time to boot -- there are various > messages that the BIOS is too old, MPBIOS bug, agpgart: unable to determine > aperture size, etc., -- it spends a long time at TFTP ..... and says PXE-E32 > TFTP open timeout -- but it finally boots linux and all BIOS/MPBIOS messages are something you will have to sort out as far as LTSP is concerned the process starts only on discovery of DHCPD. The aperture size could be set to 8mb in BIOS if there is any such setting available.</blockquote><div> I fixed the long boot process by changing the BIOS to default boot from SCSI without first trying the other default BIOS settings. The former TFTP timeout does not seem relevant. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The time out message is what needs to be looked at from LTSP point of view as this is indicating slow network. or network conflicts slowing it down...like both NIC cards of LTSP two cars servers connected to same physical network. But green indicators are telling us this may not be so.</blockquote><div> My LTSP server still repeatedly Dec 12 14:36:14 server dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:40:f4:e8:e9:24 via eth0 Dec 12 14:36:15 server dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.0.253">192.168.0.253</a> to 00:40:f4:e8:e9:24 via eth0 while the client is "Searching for server (DHCP)" It seems strange to me that in the Service Configuration GUI that the tftp process is checked and says that xinetd is running -- however the start stop restart etc. buttons in the tool bar are inactive. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- Regards, Sudev Barar _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Bruce Anderson Westmont High School, Room 44 4805 Westmont Avenue Campbell, CA 95008 (408)378-1500 x6244