[clue] Ubuntu nfsroot weirdness

[chris fedde]

Your description leads me to guess that this is a packet loss issue.
Some dumb small port count switches are notorious for accepting a
packet and then not bothering to forward it.  You might just swap in a
slightly up market manageable switch.  At least then you can mirror a
port into your analyzer to see what is really going on.

chris.

PS  Does anyone know of a small port count GigE switch that is both
manageable and does not have a jet engine fan in it?

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Shawn Perry <shawn at redmop.com> wrote:
> When I boot an individual nfsroot client, it boots just fine. When I bring
> up 15 at once, some have problems at the second DHCP phase where it times
> out. The DHCP requests are getting to the server and the server is
> responding with DHCP offers, but they never seem to make it to the client.
> It appears to affect the clients semi-randomly as in sometimes they work
> instantly, and sometimes not. Any suggestions on how to fix this or where to
> go for answers?
>
>
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