At Fri, 12 Jan 2007 it looks like nate composed: > Bill-Schoolcraft said: > > Hello Family, > > > > I have a series of switches, in racks, and one of them seems to be a bit > > slow so when kickstart goes for it's dhcp request, pump times out. The > > initial PXE takes much more time to get an "ack" at the initial contact > > than the same boxes in other racks with other switches but then finally > > starts chugging away -- it's the next dhcp request that fails, times out. > > > > Today I took the same box, draped a cat6 cable to another, less > > populated switch, and it kicked fine. > > > > (question) > > So my question is, how or where can I place an argument to tell > > kickstart's "pump" request to try longer before timing out. > > just curious, what type of switch? many older cisco switches have > STP on by default, if you set the port(s) to 'portfast' the links come > up immediately rather than waiting ~45 seconds. > > I'm not a cisco guy but if your switches are cisco the command > is something like > > int (interface) > spanning-tree portfast > ^Z > wr mem > > > e.g. on my old 3500s (IOS 12.0 is the latest they'll run) > int fa0/5 > spanning-tree portfast > > I haven't encountered any other switch vendors that have this > 'feature' enabled by default. You can tell if it's on without > even logging in(to the switch) by checking to see if the link > light for the port spends a long time in the orange color > before turning green. I've been told more modern cisco switches > ship with this feature off by default. > > as for extending the pump times, I'm not sure, so I can't > answer your specific question :) maybe the above will help a bit.. > > I did a quick search on pump timeout, and what I did see was > that it may be possible to extend the timeout by adding a > /etc/pump_device.conf and using the option 'timeout <some number>'. > > though you'll need to add that to the initrd image..not the > easiest thing in the world. > > nate Thanks Nate, Alot of good information there and "YES" it's a Cisco switch... -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com ~ "Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
