[PLUG] Thin-clients

[Paul Heinlein]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Kris wrote:

> I would rather offer the PLUG community the opportunity to get paid 
> to get them working.  If anyone is interested contact me offline. 
> I have budget, and it would really help out a local school.
>
> The main issue is the 2nd DHCP attempt is failing.  It PXE boots off 
> DHCP, loads the kernel, and appears to fail around the IP-Config 
> DHCP attempt (couldn't find much info on the klibc ipconfig 
> command..  ipconfig is not a typo for ifconfig).

I realize you probably don't have time to play and experiment, and I 
know that your switch-fu dwarfs mine, but I'm wondering...

Are these machines plugged into a switch or a hub? If the former, try 
putting a hub between the client and the switch. In some cases, I've 
seen that clear up the problem. My lingering suspicion is that the 
issue has been switch configuration, but I have no switch-fu to speak 
of, so I've always been stymied.

Also, can you assign these machines a static address? If so, do the 
network drivers work correctly?

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