From: Bogdan Costescu Subject: Re: AW: URGENT: Problems with NFS-Root-Clients Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <95AF67BA7F70D511829B0002A551737001C9C4@faw-e01.faw.freudenberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from mail.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de ([129.206.104.30]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17jivg-0003nv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:10:56 -0700 To: Marco.Schwarz@freudenberg.de In-Reply-To: <95AF67BA7F70D511829B0002A551737001C9C4@faw-e01.faw.freudenberg.de> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 Marco.Schwarz@freudenberg.de wrote: > it is not working most of the time, but sometime it is, and some > days ago it was the other way ... working most of the time, just sometimes > problems). Hmm, maybe you should fix this first ! What do you mean by "not working": - sometimes it doesn't provide a link at boot time and you have to reboot and eventually it will get past the point and afterwards eveything works fine or - it boots fine and there are intermitent problems afterwards or - something else ? > Network cards are Intel EEPro100, but we have a lot more of these (also with > diskless clients, same configuration/kernel), and the problem is happening > in just this one location ... IIRC, there are different revisions of the cards, some of them having some problems... so it's not sufficient to have another one working well ! > Sending BOOTP requests . OK > IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.0.235, my adress is 192.168.0.87 > IP-Config: Complete: Um, the link did work ! Can you try to ping it from the server ? That should show if the link is down. Another (better) possibility would be to turn on debugging in the network driver (change in source and recompile or pass it on the kernel command line), but it depends on the driver that you're using. F.e. for Donald Becker's drivers you can use debug level 2 or 3 to get media related information without getting too much uninteresting (for this problem) stuff. Another unrelated suggestion: can you make sure that you're not running any kind of firewall (ipchains/iptables) on the server that could block the communication ? -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs