client hangs after eth0 becomes ready

[Florian Streibelt]

Am 09.11.2011 16:16 schrieb Vivien Bernet-Rollande:
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>> eth0: link becomes ready
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>> and then it hangs
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>> anyone an idea??
>>

I experienced this when a server with multiple NICs was booting and the nic
the dhcp server was connected was detected as eth1.

The initrd uses a dhcp client to configure the network, after the kernel
did the ip configuration for the NFS root.

In the initrd a dhcp client is started for the first network card that has
a cable attached. Thus a dhcp client was started on eth0, while the dhcp
server was connected on eth1.

I patched the initrd to check all interfaces that have a link, if there is
no response after a timeout.

/Florian