On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:54:40PM -0800, Shabazian, Chip wrote: > The NIC is cycled 3 times, the first is during the PXEBoot process, and > is done by the system. The second is done by the boot kernel, and is > done to get the kickstart file, the third is to actually build the > system. > > Every time, the system reloads the drivers. This allows using different > NIC's or different IP's for different purposes if necessary. Good to know. Thanks. > It is an incredible annoyance when you have to deal with spanning tree, > but there have been options added in later versions that allow delays to > compensate for this. I assume you are referring to nicdelay and linksleep? Are there any others? I've been trying to get this to work on a RHEL4 U4 system on a switch with Spanning Tree enabled. Even with long delays I am unable to get pump to get an IP address. I don't understand how, when the system is installed, ISC's dhcp client is able to get an IP no problem (after a delay of course). Would be interested to see typical nicdelay and linksleep settings used by posters on this list to work around STP. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a process to convince the network admins to shut STP off on switchports to which no switches are attached. :) Ray
