On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Michael Will <mw...@penguincomputing.com> wrote: > I don't know anything about smc switches, but for cisco switches I had to > enable 'spanning-tree portfast default' before to allow a >pxe booting node > to stay up. Maybe the smc switch has something similar that prevents the port > from being fully useable until some >spanning tree algorithm terminates?
+1 for the spanning tree suggestion. I needed to do the same on my Dell Catalyst. Check if "DHCP squash" on the port connected to the master node is enabled. This can prevent DHCP. Just a thought. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
