On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:57:08PM -0700, yiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I had the same problem kickstarting machines connected with Cisco switches. > With default port settings, those ports takes 10-15 sec to become active. > > I think the real problem is that dhcp client times out too fast . If it > waited longer, a solution will eventually come back from dhcp server. I > don't see an option for program pump to change its time-out period though. > Perhap RedHat engineers can make it stay longer during kickstart. > > Yiping Yeah, I couldn't find "pump" anywhere on the installation floppy too. I think it is compiled into the "loader" program. If we could get the sources to "loader", I'm sure we could hack this. Ajay