Issue with Aquiring DHCP

[Lambert, Eric]

...and just in case, if you're using a kickstart file with something
like this:

network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp

Be sure you change that device eth0 to eth1 as well.

-Eric 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Ciordia [mailto:andy.ciordia at pgdc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:12 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Issue with Aquiring DHCP

Since you mentioned this adding weight I went and adjusted my ksdevice
from eth0 to eth1 and PXE still loads the kernel right but then I can't
get passed the dhcp allocation screen.  Its waiting for a link which is
not hot.  So I think the kernel and pxe understand that eth0 is eth0 it
just for some reason fires off too early, or needs to understand
failure/latency and retry some set number of times or have fallback
mechanism.

It needs to get a bit smarter, one point of failure cannot be an
acceptable option.

-a

Lambert, Eric wrote:
> I've had this same problem for this reason.  i.e. PXE booting a dell 
> 1750 over the on-board gig-1 (chosing between gig-1 and gig-2) with an

> additional e1000 card in the box will boot PXE over the gig-1 then 
> fail on the anaconda DHCP with this error.  When I modify the ks.cfg 
> to use
> eth1 instead of eth0 it works.  As Jeremy stated below, I think it's 
> because the BIOS and linux differ on which interface is eth0 once the 
> OS starts to load.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Silver [mailto:jeremy at broadware.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:51 PM
> To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
> Subject: RE: Issue with Aquiring DHCP
> 
> Do you have multiple ethernet interfaces?  Linux and the BIOS do not 
> always agree on which is the 'first' ethernet port(and therefore eth0)

> in the system.  On some systems I have to use the second (as labeled 
> on the server
> chassis) ethernet port for kickstart  as Linux see it as eth0, or 
> specify
> eth1 as the ksdevice to use the first ethernet port.
> 


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