filip.sneppe at gmail
May 1, 2008, 12:59 PM
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Hi Adam,
I experienced something very similar (and repeatable) on a number of FAS3020
models. I am not sure we're talking about the same problem since the 3020 and
3040 architectures are a little different.
What we experienced was identified by NetApp support as bug 237004:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=237004
It was only experienced when booting via http.
The workarounds that worked for us were:
- either using tftp to perform the netboot
- or limiting/shaping traffic on the webhost (in our testing, the
problem was caused
by an overload of packets sent by the server, and the netboot
process failed to
deal with it correctly). Under Linux, we used these commands to
limit bandwidth:
# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 1
# tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 100kbps ceil 100kbps
Hopefully someone at NetApp can confirm whether or not you're encountering
the same issue.
Regards,
Filip
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9[at]egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> We are trying to netboot a 3040 because it has no root volume yet. We
> downloaded the netboot image for 7.2.4, put it on a local webserver, used
> ifconfig in the boot loader to assign an IP and told it to boot off the http
> image. According to the webserver logs it was fetched, but the netboot
> client never finishes, printing dots (........) forever, we let it go
> overnight. We'll open a support case soon if needed because we need to get
> this rolling, but does anyone have any tips? Thanks.
>
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