[syslinux] tftp open timeout but with no server side errors

[Christopher Deneen]

It was the arp cache, I've been testing so many machines that ips were
switched often. I cleared it and everything is fine. Thank you all for
your help

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, John Rouillard<rouilj at renesys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:24:28PM -0400, Christopher Deneen wrote:
>> Here is an interesting update.
>>
>> My dhpd is static per mac
>>
>> here is the example of the machine that doesn't work
>>   host cluster0107 {
>>         hardware ethernet  00:1F:C6:BA:05:42;
>>         fixed-address 192.168.1.107;
>>
>> here is one that works
>>
>>  host cluster0139 {
>>         hardware ethernet  00:1F:C6:BA:07:46;
>>         fixed-address 192.168.1.139;
>>
>> If i switch them, the machine that didn't work, works.
>> It boots fully with no problems and the other machine doesn't
>> bear in mind all 40 of these machines are identical hardware and
>> bios version.
>
> Silly question but are you running arpwatch or something to see if you
> are swapping mac/ip mapping? Maybe it's the .107 address that's
> duplicated and thus causing an issue?
>
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>                                -- rouilj
>
> John Rouillard       System Administrator
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