Network kickstart weirdness

[John Tran]

Do you know if there is any other way around this bug, except for
disabling PortFast on the switch?  I don't have access to the network
gear, and I've been wrestling w/ this issue forever.

On 5/23/05, Seremeth, Stephen <SSeremeth at anacomp.com> wrote:
> If you ask me, it's this bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151872
> 
> But having said that, if you change the port on your switch to enable
> portFast, I predict you'll be all set.
> 
> That's what we had to do.  PXE was getting an IP just fine -- it was
> Kickstart/Anaconda that was choking in this regard.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
> P.S.  We were plugged into a Cisco Catalyst 4000(?).
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> > Robinson, Andrew W.
> > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:35 PM
> > To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
> > Subject: Network kickstart weirdness
> >
> > I think I have encountered this problem before, but cannot
> > remember the
> > solution. I am trying to perform a network kickstart on a Dell PE 2650
> > server. The OS is RHEL 3 U4. No matter how I try this, the
> > client seems not
> > to recognize that the kickstart file is present. It always
> > asks for network
> > information. The system successfully obtained an address
> > through dhcp for
> > the pxe-boot, but then it cannot seem to get an address to start the
> > installation process. I am perplexed. I do not know if this
> > is a network
> > problem, a problem with the kickstart file, or maybe a problem with
> > anaconda. Can anyone suggest any clues that might enable me
> > to figure out
> > what is wrong?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Andrew Robinson
> >
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