"pump" times out -- extend a few seconds more?

[Bill-Schoolcraft]

At Fri, 12 Jan 2007 it looks like nate composed:

> Bill-Schoolcraft said:
> > Hello Family,
> >
> > I have a series of switches, in racks, and one of them seems to be a bit
> > slow so when kickstart goes for it's dhcp request, pump times out.  The
> > initial PXE takes much more time to get an "ack" at the initial contact
> > than the same boxes in other racks with other switches but then finally
> > starts chugging away -- it's the next dhcp request that fails, times out.
> >
> > Today I took the same box, draped a cat6 cable to another, less
> > populated switch, and it kicked fine.
> >
> > (question)
> > So my question is, how or where can I place an argument to tell
> > kickstart's "pump" request to try longer before timing out.
> 
> just curious, what type of switch? many older cisco switches have
> STP on by default, if you set the port(s) to 'portfast' the links come
> up immediately rather than waiting ~45 seconds.
> 
> I'm not a cisco guy but if your switches are cisco the command
> is something like
> 
> int (interface)
> spanning-tree portfast
> ^Z
> wr mem
> 
> 
> e.g. on my old 3500s (IOS 12.0 is the latest they'll run)
> int fa0/5
> spanning-tree portfast
> 
> I haven't encountered any other switch vendors that have this
> 'feature' enabled by default. You can tell if it's on without
> even logging in(to the switch) by checking to see if the link
> light for the port spends a long time in the orange color
> before turning green. I've been told more modern cisco switches
> ship with this feature off by default.
> 
> as for extending the pump times, I'm not sure, so I can't
> answer your specific question :) maybe the above will help a bit..
> 
> I did a quick search on pump timeout, and what I did see was
> that it may be possible to extend the timeout by adding a
> /etc/pump_device.conf and using the option 'timeout <some number>'.
> 
> though you'll need to add that to the initrd image..not the
> easiest thing in the world.
> 
> nate

Thanks Nate,

Alot of good information there and "YES" it's a Cisco switch...
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