[SLE] DHCP and NFS: What's going on here?

From: Jim Sabatke (jsabatke_at_execpc.com)
Date: 08/28/04

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    I tried removing DHCP from my network. I've only been
    running it a few days and I wanted to see if it was causing
    my network problmes. I:

    1. Set all client cards to permanent IP
    2. Set all /etc/hosts files to the correct IPs.
    3. Used yast to turn off DHCP on the server

    After rebooting the server (yeah, I know I probably didn't
    need to):

    1. System wouldn't boot. I have this problem almost
    everytime I make a services change. The boot process goes
    crazy with seg faults until I write or touch any file in
    /etc. Yes, I know this makes no sense, but I've had this
    since installing 9.0.

    2. After successfully booting, I could ping all boxes by
    name and IP. I could ping my server from all clients by
    name and IP.

    3. I rebooted all clients.

    4. NFS would not mount on client boots. It would hang for
    about 20 minutes, error, then continue.

    5. I checked my exports, manually and through yast. They
    looked fine.

    6. I checked my client /etc/fstab files. They looked fine.

    7. I could still ping everything from everywhere.

    8. I tried reintializing the NFS clients. They could not
    find any export mounts on the server.

    9. I put DHCP back in. Everything works as before.

    Any clue what's going on? This doesn't make any sense to me. 

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