ubuntu 10.04: problems with thin clients hanging on boot

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, john wrote:

> Some of my cable spans are 100 mb and there does seem to be a
> correlation between distance from the server and the amount of
> stations that hang. *Thinking out loud* I wonder if there is some work
> around? Is this a race condition of some sort? If so I wonder if some
> variation on the nbd_server sleep method above might help. I guess
> I'll try remove the "quiet" option on client boot and bump the wait to
> 10 seconds and see if I can gain any more insight.

It would be worth checking if they are autonegotiating at 100Mbit Full
Duplex (or better).  If that's failing and you're getting 10Mbit/sec or
half duplex, you'll be in trouble.

Gavin