networking problem in initrd

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:32:33 +0100, Gert Huisman <gert.huisman.55 at gmail.com> said:

    > On this Supermicro servers it fails to bring up the nfsroot.
    > ipconfig: no response after 15 sec.
This could be a problem with your network switch if the auto
negotiation takes too long. Also disabling Spanning Tree Protocol
(STP) on your switch ports via PortFast (on Cisco) may help.

You can also switch your nfsroot from using live-boot (which uses
klibc which uses ipconfig) to dracut. I recommend this for FAI 4 with a
wheezy nfsroot.
-- 
regards Thomas