On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 13:06 -0500, Matt Roth wrote:
Does your NFS server respond immediately after you finish booting.If not there may be a response timeout occurring. You do have nfs and nfslock running on you server?
Yes and yes. I can manually mount the NFS server immediately after logging in and both nfsd and lockd are running on the NFS server.
Just a stab in the dark.... But I recall a situation where inability to communicate during boot with the network which magically works later on is perhaps a function of the switch? Sometimes when "ports" are initialized, the switch performs a Spanning-Tree Algorithm which leaves the port clueless until the algorithm finishes. Purpose of the Spanning-Tree thing is to prevent Layer 2 loops in your network.... Perhaps a change to a setting on the switch to inhibit SPT (like PortFast) could improve the situation?
HTH,
--Rob
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