Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Gavin Tran]

Hi

After a lot of time being debugged, I found out that it was problem
with Marvell Yukon 8053 Gigabit Ethernet.

My install environment is a bit change compare to before. I had 1
server which has 2 NICs, 1 for the external and 1 for the internal.
Let's name it dserver and aka-server. Exactly , it's a type of
Beowulf.
All of my nodes are the same with Marvell Yukon 8053 built-in. When I
booted over PXE, it first loaded kernel successfully than stop at
"Sending DHCP requests ..... timed out"
My tcpdump log  said like below, which was the packets sent while
loaded kernel image.

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20:58:47.636641 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:
BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:11:2f:52:0c:2f, length: 548
20:58:47.637330 IP aka-master.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc:
BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 372
20:58:49.776943 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:
BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:11:2f:52:0c:2f, length: 548
20:58:49.777157 IP aka-master.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc:
BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 372
20:58:49.778760 arp who-has aka-master tell akagawa5
20:58:49.778773 arp reply aka-master is-at 00:14:85:3a:c6:67
20:58:49.778991 IP akagawa5.2070 > aka-master.tftp:  27 RRQ
"pxelinux.0" octet tsize 0
20:58:49.779536 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2070: UDP, length: 14
20:58:49.779745 IP akagawa5.2070 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 17
20:58:49.780234 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.tftp:  32 RRQ
"pxelinux.0" octet blksize 1456
20:58:49.780627 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 15
20:58:49.780837 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.780888 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.781145 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.781175 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.781431 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.781459 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.781716 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.781745 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.782001 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.782030 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.782286 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.782315 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.782571 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.782611 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.782878 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.782906 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 1460
20:58:49.783163 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.783191 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.2071: UDP, length: 186
20:58:49.783415 IP akagawa5.2071 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.891880 IP akagawa5.57089 > aka-master.tftp:  63 RRQ
"pxelinux.cfg/01-00-11-2f-52-0c-2f" octet tsize 0 blks
20:58:49.892298 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.57089: UDP, length: 19
20:58:49.892888 IP akagawa5.57090 > aka-master.tftp:  51 RRQ
"pxelinux.cfg/C0A80A69" octet tsize 0 blksize 1440
20:58:49.893267 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.57090: UDP, length: 25
20:58:49.893489 IP akagawa5.57090 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.893536 IP aka-master.32828 > akagawa5.57090: UDP, length: 222
20:58:49.893752 IP akagawa5.57090 > aka-master.32828: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.893756 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.tftp:  45 RRQ
"vmlinuz-install" octet tsize 0 blksize 1440
20:58:49.894153 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 29
20:58:49.894441 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.894490 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.894761 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.894791 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.895053 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.895081 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.895339 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.895367 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.895625 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.895654 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.895911 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.895940 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.896197 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.896226 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.896483 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.896512 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.896775 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.896805 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.897063 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.897092 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.897348 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.897377 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.897633 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4
20:58:49.897662 IP aka-master.32829 > akagawa5.57091: UDP, length: 1444
20:58:49.897918 IP akagawa5.57091 > aka-master.32829: UDP, length: 4

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Curiously , I connect 1 of my spare pc (Intel Pro 10/100 Ethernet) to
the switch, than boot up. It went with no problem. I could get into
shell command.

As before , I downloaded lasted driver for Marvell Yukon 8053 (sk98lin
ver 8_28)and built it permanently with kernel.

Anyone have solution for that.

Thank in advance
Gavin
> regards Thomas
>


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Gavin Tran
Tsuruoka College of Technology Japan
Department of Control and Information Engineering