[K12OSN] migration question - nfs freezing?

[Petre Scheie]

I should add that the lines suggested by the wiki page Jim referred me to were necessary 
for both of my troublesome clients.

Petre Scheie wrote:
> I had a similar problem with an older client that was running an ISA 
> 3Com NIC over coax.  Jim McQuillan pointed me to 
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NFS to fix the problem.  Also, 
> this past weekend, I tried out an old 486 with a PCI NIC (with a RealTek 
> 8139 chip) that had similar symptoms when it was connected to my 100Mbit 
> switch.  I moved it to an old 10Mbit hub, which then had an upstream 
> link to the 100Mbit switch to which the server was connected, and then 
> it worked fine.  HTH
> 
> Petre
> 
> Antonello Facchetti wrote:
> 
>> I'm migrating my server to k12ltsp 4.2.1 (fc3), from a previous 4.0.1 
>> (fc1).
>> The server has got a new gigabit nic for the terminal and a fast nic 
>> for the network outside.
>> I did a standard installation (no tweaking at all, just set ip addresses)
>> When I try to connect a client this is correctly recognized, it gets 
>> it's ip address from dhcp but it freezes after this message:
>>
>> mounting root filesystem from /opt/ltsp/i386
>> doing the pivot_root
>> nfs: server 192.168.1.254 not responding. trying again
>>
>> meanwhile /var/log/messages in the server says:
>>
>> rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.7 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
>>
>> I suppose it's a problem with nfs, but I have touched nothing in the 
>> server (as i said, a smooth standard install)
>>
>> I thought it might be a problem with gigabit nic, but the net works 
>> (dhcp did his work).
>>
>> Nfs is running as a service
>>
>> Did I forget anything?
>>
>> tia
>> Antonello
>>
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