Broadcom NIC delays prevent DHCP during Kickstart

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:27:59PM -0500, Kevin Kwast wrote:
>    I have an annoying problem with the Broadcom NICs in all the recent
>    PowerEdge servers that I have used (including the 2950).
> 
>    During a kickstart, the PXE boot is always able to succesfully DHCP, but
>    when anaconda tries to reach the DHCP server, it can never actually reach
>    it.  I don't see the packets make it over there in tcpdump.  Once
>    kickstart has hung for a little while, I can manually enter IP information
>    and it works from there, but it seems like the time it takes the Broadcom
>    NIC to start communicating with the PowerConnect 5324 switch is so long
>    that DHCP will always timeout.
> 
>    Anyone have a good fix for this issue?

Is spanning tree enabled on the switch?

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