On Dell PowerEdge 6600/6650\'s with their embedded Broadcom 5703, the system fails to obtain an IP address during boot. When bringing up the device during boot, system gives an error, says to check the cable. Once system boots, you can \"service network restart\" and the device (eth0) will obtain and IP adress with no problems. ---------- Action by: jhull Issue Registered ---------- Action by: jgarzik This is a symptom of a buggy DHCP client, that does not wait for the link to show up. The BCM570x chips have a phy init sequence that takes a long time to process, and some DHCP clients written during the 10/100 days have not been updated to support these slower phy init sequences. If this is \"pump\", the Red Hat DHCP client used by the installer (and _only_ by the installer... not used after install), then this is a bug I just hit in the lab yesterday. Status set to: Waiting on Tech ---------- Action by: mdomsch yes, this issue was registered testing only the installer (hence pump), not using dh-client after install. ---------- Action by: mdomsch oh, my mistake, comment immediately preceeding was for a different issue. Please ignore. ---------- Action by: jhull The system picked up an IP just fine during install (I did an NFS install). Only when the system boots after the OS is installed does the problem exist. ---------- Action by: ltroan Escalated to Bugzilla ---------- Action by: ltroan opening bugzillas against both pump and dhclient per jeff garzik. Bugzilla id 83010 added to Issue Tracker. Category set to: Installer THIS IS ISSUE TRACKER 14019, OPENED BY DELL AS A SEVERITY 2. OPENING AGAINST DHCLIENT PER JEFF GARZIK
This is not a problem with dhcp I believe. Basically they are getting an error eth0 failed; no link present. Check cable? This comes from the ifup script. The ifup script is calling the check_link_down function in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions. This code runs the following if [ -x /sbin/mii-tool ]; then LC_ALL=C ip link show $1 2>/dev/null| grep -q UP || ip link set $1 up >/dev/null 2>&1 # wait for link to come up sleep 5 /sbin/mii-tool $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1 ... /sbin/mii-tool is probably returning an error like eth0: no link So we need to know why the card is taking more than 5 seconds to get up or put the script in a loop to check for more than 5 seconds. Dan Either way this bug should be reassigned to initscripts
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83010 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.