NFS server running on a machine with two Lan cards
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NFS server running on a machine with two Lan cards
Hi there,
I am using a Computer with two Athlon 800mghz processors as a server. I have a few clients that are supposed to boot from the it.(using PXE, tftp and nfs) My problem is that the clients 'not always' manage to boot from the server. Sometimes they boot, sometime they don't. They all stop at that point(something like that):
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.254 Looking up port of RPC 100005/2 on 192.168.0.254
Unable to load Root File system.
...
It took me a lot of time, but I finally found out that the problem comes from the LAN cards of the server. The computer has two LAN cards, so I tried to remove one of them to see what will happen. I left the one at which all the servers were running and turned the machine on. Surprisingly my problem was gone. All the clients were able to boot and the process took less time as before. Than I put back the LAN card and the things were as before. So, in some way I need to tell the NFS server, that it is supposed to operate on a certain LAN card(or at least that is what came to my mind), but I don't know how I can do that. If you have any suggestions or already had such a situation, I will appreciate your help.
thanks in advance
Ok, does anyone know where all the setting for the NFS server are writen. I mean in wchich conf file. I allready checket the files that i know, but nothing about a second lan card was written there.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
Posts: 3,660
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Are you trying to assign both NICs an IP on the same subnet? If so, that's your problem right there (which is what I suspect). If they're on different subnets, then is the 2nd card on the same subnet as one of the stations that's trying to boot off the other NIC's IP? That will also cause a problem.
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