On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:13 -0800, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > The other diskless machine on another nic off of the same server, dodo, > > boots just fine by the way. Is something obviously wrong in my dhcp > > config file or am I looking at a problem with the switch? DHCP worked > > when I was using a 10BaseT hub which makes me wonder if the line can't > > support 100baseTX. > > It could be a problem with autoconfiguring the speed, and duplex of > the connection. I've had two switches decide on different modes, and > thus get a broken network. When one side is a dumb 10 megabit hub it > doesn't try to negotiate, so you never have to worry about that > problem. If you can force it into different modes try that.
I forced the server to half duplex using ethtool, but I can't force the client to go to half duplex. Put the 10Mbit dumb hub back in, dhcp worked like a charm and the machine network booted no problem. I wonder if being a switch it was blocking the dhcp replies? I should in theory be able to pull the hub and replace it with a crossover coupler. I'm starting to think that the switch I was trying to use is bad or maybe I need a 100 megabit per second hub instead. Thing is, I use another DSS5+ switch with a linksys wireless WAP11 plugged into it that configures via dhcp no problem. I'm not sure what the issue is here. Just to double check, 190' is within the range limitations for 100BaseTX, right? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
