Comment 10 for bug 1246236

Revision history for this message
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1246236] Re: pxe boot from maas fails due to time out

On Friday 14 Mar 2014 09:37:18 you wrote:
> I was adviced to try rebooting the MAAS server (region and cluster
> controller on one box) which fixed the problem. But a subsequent reboot
> brought it back :/

I am pretty sure there's something wrong with some folks' networking setups
but I'm not sure what it is.

The timeouts on the TFTP server are very generous, it uses a backoff algorithm
and ends up as a few seconds. This should be more than enough for a local
network!

As a data point. I have seen this locally once when I mixed different types of
switches together (100MB and Gigabit) and went away as soon as I moved back to
a single speed network.