The scenario: Installed a Ubuntu 5.10 Linux server with dhcp3-server, apache2 and tftpd-hpa to serve as a mass Linux deployment station. It can serve up to 200 PCs at one time installing Linux using just one NIC card in the server. Recently, we wanted to expand our bandwidth to push out these PCs faster. The problem: If there is more than one NIC in the computer, TFTP will not work properly. The machine trying to connect to the TFTP server will give the following errors, an 'ARP timeout' followed by 'Connection cannot be made.' Is there anyway to use more than one NIC (say like 5) without affecting the TFTP? Can TFTP use more than one NIC or is this not possible under tftpd-hpa? Thanks, Dan Rupp Coordinator/President SCROUNGE
DAN RUPP wrote:> The scenario: > > Installed a Ubuntu 5.10 Linux server with dhcp3-server, apache2 and tftpd-hpa to > serve as a mass Linux deployment station. It can serve up to 200 PCs at one > time installing Linux using just one NIC card in the server. Recently, we > wanted to expand our bandwidth to push out these PCs faster. > > The problem: > > If there is more than one NIC in the computer, TFTP will not work properly. The > machine trying to connect to the TFTP server will give the following errors, an > 'ARP timeout' followed by 'Connection cannot be made.' > > Is there anyway to use more than one NIC (say like 5) without affecting the > TFTP? Can TFTP use more than one NIC or is this not possible under tftpd-hpa? >It works just fine, and is in regular use at many sites. Are you connecting them to the *same* network or to *different* ones? If you're connecting them to the same network you probably need to bond the NICs together as opposed to having them with different IP addresses. -hpa