[K12OSN] Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Still hanging at mounting filesystem

[Sudev Barar]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 07:05, Dana Persells wrote:
> I'm running rtl8039 on server and 1 client and a
> 3com905 on the other client. Both clients are picking
Earlier post: your dhcpd.conf showed:

host ws001 {
        hardware ethernet     00:4F:49:00:1A:CB;
        fixed-address         192.168.0.102;
        filename             
"/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.24-ltsp-4";
#        option option-128     e4:45:74:68:00:00;  
#This is NOT a MAC address
#        option option-129     "NIC=ne IO=0x300";
    }

If you are using rtl8039 in ws001 then the lines option128/129 should
not have been commented out!!
Secondly your output log is showing:

May 11 19:24:32 DanaLinux dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for
192.168.0.102 (192.168.0.101) from 00:4f:49:00:1a:cb
via eth0

What is 192.168.0.101?? Your server was 192.168.0.6 ?? On my system the
cycle of DHCPDISCOVER / OFFER / REQUEST / PACK is cycled through twice
as is given below. And since the DHCP server is same as LTSP server the
DISCOVERY and REQQUEST is done by 192.168.0.254. AFter this the host
name is picked up from /etc/hosts file and then authentication mount
starts:

May  3 08:25:22 server dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:80:48:2a:02:3f via
eth0
May  3 08:25:22 server dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.123 to
00:80:48:2a:02:3f via eth0
May  3 08:25:22 server dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.123
(192.168.0.254) from  00:80:48:2a:02:3f via eth0
May  3 08:25:22 server dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.123 to
00:80:48:2a:02:3f via eth0
May  3 08:25:29 server dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:80:48:2a:02:3f via
eth0
May  3 08:25:29 server dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.123 to
00:80:48:2a:02:3f via eth0
May  3 08:25:31 server dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.123
(192.168.0.254) from  00:80:48:2a:02:3f via eth0
May  3 08:25:31 server dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.123 to
00:80:48:2a:02:3f via eth0
May  3 08:25:31 server rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
ws123.ltsp:691 for /opt/ltsp/i386 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
May  3 08:25:34 server rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
ws123.ltsp:794 for /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles (/var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles)
May  3 08:25:34 server rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
ws123.ltsp:804 for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts)...


So it seems that the DHCP is getting broken somewhere. Most likely due
to option 128 / 129 not being passed on. 
I am trying to help and at the same time understand the whole process.
De-mystifying a problem is best way to do so. Please do give a little
slack if your feel I am way off here.

-- 
Sudev Barar
Learning Linux