Thursday Jun 29, 2006
As it was pointed out the problem is certainly with the managed switch.
As I mentioned earlier it was working for OS loading solaris OS and Linux but it needed manual intervantion.
That made me think, something else is problem rather than the switch.
But it failed to respond the DHCP after I install the second master server in the same net.
After this even though I uninstalled and rebooted still no improvement happened.
I created a DHCP server on the net but even that also unable to respond the DHCP request.
Rebooting the switch, disabling spantree and all other effort mentioned earlier didn't help the Master server to respond DHCP packet by the client. On the other way round it responded to nge0 port which was connected to swan.
Though it was working fine for normal network activity,(TCP/UDP packets) it failed to get/deliver/parse DHCP and TFTP packets.