[Linux-ia64] Re: disabling nics using boot options.

[Linux-ia64] Re: disabling nics using boot options.

[Bill Nottingham]

Roy Dragseth (Roy.Dragseth@cc.uit.no) said: 
> Further investigation shows that if I connect the Gbit interface to a 10Mbs 
> hub everything works ok, e.g. using the ksdevice=eth2 boot option works as 
> expected.
> 
> I have narrowed this down to the following problem:  When the init process 
> tries to configure the eth2 with dhcp it fail, but if I logon as root and run
> 
> /etc/init.d/network start
> 
> everything works ok.  Subsequent reboots also works ok because now the 
> information is cached in /etc/dhcpc/.  If I remove the cached info the 
> problem turn up again.

So, it works post-install, but not in the installer? Hm. The dhcp client
code is different in the two cases, but not in a way that should
significantly affect this case.

Bill

Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: disabling nics using boot options.

[Roy Dragseth]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 18:01, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> So, it works post-install, but not in the installer? Hm. The dhcp client
> code is different in the two cases, but not in a way that should
> significantly affect this case.

Well, it doesn't work during a normal bootup either.  If I remove the cached 
info in /etc/dhcpc/ and reboots, the network initialization fails:

Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface lo:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth2:  dhcpcd[536]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP 
server response
Determining IP information for eth2... failed.
[FAILED]

If I log in and run /etc/init.d/network start everything works ok:

root@compute-1-1 root]# /etc/init.d/network start
Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface lo:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth2:  [  OK  ]

I cannot see what it is different when init starts the network from when root 
is doing it.

r.

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Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: disabling nics using boot options.

[Bill Nottingham]

Roy Dragseth (royd@cc.uit.no) said: 
> Well, it doesn't work during a normal bootup either.  If I remove the cached 
> info in /etc/dhcpc/ and reboots, the network initialization fails:
> 
> Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
> Bringing up interface lo:  [  OK  ]
> Bringing up interface eth2:  dhcpcd[536]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP 
> server response
> Determining IP information for eth2... failed.
> [FAILED]
> 
> If I log in and run /etc/init.d/network start everything works ok:
> 
> root@compute-1-1 root]# /etc/init.d/network start
> Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
> Bringing up interface lo:  [  OK  ]
> Bringing up interface eth2:  [  OK  ]
> 
> I cannot see what it is different when init starts the network from when root 
> is doing it.

How quickly does it time out (after 30 seconds to a minute?)

Bill

Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: disabling nics using boot options.

[Roy Dragseth]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 21:27, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> How quickly does it time out (after 30 seconds to a minute?)

I clocked it in to exactly one minute.

r.


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