Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I just &quot;updated&quot; my cobbler setup (yum -y update) and I have a bizarre problem with a previously-working setup. It seems that now the network does not work properly. When I kickstart a machine, if I ping the (temporary) DHCP address that the machine is allocated I get three distinct phases:</div>
<div><br></div><div>[ While initial boot ]</div><div><div>From 10.5.10.5 icmp_seq=90 Destination Host Unreachable</div><div>From 10.5.10.5 icmp_seq=91 Destination Host Unreachable</div><div>From 10.5.10.5 icmp_seq=92 Destination Host Unreachable</div>
<div>[&quot;Sending request for IP Information&quot;]</div><div>64 bytes from <a href="http://10.5.10.23">10.5.10.23</a>: icmp_seq=93 ttl=64 time=1383 ms<br></div><div>64 bytes from <a href="http://10.5.10.23">10.5.10.23</a>: icmp_seq=94 ttl=64 time=383 ms</div>
<div>[ 2 or 3 pings later, when it attempts to download stage2.img - back to&nbsp;Destination&nbsp;Host unreachable just packet loss ]</div><div><br></div><div>On the cobbler server, I get what seems to be a normal output:</div><div>
<br></div><div><div>Dec 23 18:43:33 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div><div>Dec 23 18:43:34 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.5.10.23 to 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div><div>Dec 23 18:43:35 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.5.10.23 (10.5.10.5) from 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div>
<div>Dec 23 18:43:35 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.5.10.23 to 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div><div>Dec 23 18:43:36 gcisvlin-cobbler in.tftpd[3530]: tftp: client does not accept options</div><div>Dec 23 18:43:56 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div>
<div>Dec 23 18:43:56 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.5.10.23 to 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div><div>Dec 23 18:43:56 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.5.10.23 (10.5.10.5) from 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div>
<div>Dec 23 18:43:56 gcisvlin-cobbler dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.5.10.23 to 00:50:56:ac:5d:50 via eth1</div><div><br></div></div><div>Has anyone seen this before? Any pointers? I can&#39;t see any obvious error from the kickstart output, but even in tty3 it flashes past pretty fast. Unfortunately, it dies before I get to a shell so I can&#39;t really debug further, as it can&#39;t download stage2.img.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If it helps, both cobbler and client are VMWare ESX guests, and the cobbler server has been used to kickstart a large number of other guests before! I updated VMWare tools (on the cobbler server) during the upgrade, not sure if that might be relevant.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div><br>Alex</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>