Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Steffen Grunewald]

Hola Federico,

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:50:19AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> 
> I'm curious: are you using a gigabit ethernet switch? You will have
> problems with DHCP for PXE booting when using a gigabit ethernet switch
> with a gigabit ethernet card. I still don't have a workaround for this.
> Any tips on how to get this combination working would be greatly
> appreciated.

Could you please go into details a bit? I've been using such a setup for
ages and haven't been aware that it would not work:

Gigabit backbone: HP ProCurve 4208gl
directly connected: GB onboard (SuperMicro boards, both E1000 and Broadcom
stuff)

As long as the BIOS supports PXE, there's no problem.
Of course I haven't been able to boot other machines (with SysKonnect cards)
via PXE but this is a "feature" of those cards (and even EtherBoot would
not work with them for some strange reason so I'm stuck with the FAI
boot floppy in these cases)...

Cheers,
 Steffen

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