Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:10:55 +0900, Gavin Tran <gavintran at gmail.com> said:

    > 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.
If you can't see the DHCP request from the kernel itself (after the
kernel has been loaded and started) with tcpdump, I think the kernel
changes the order of your network cards. So maybe the kernel sends its
DHCP request on the other NIC that the kernel itself was bootet from.

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regards Thomas