Ghost Solution Suite

Hello,

I am using gss2.0 on all my Dell servers without any problem.

The problem I am having is with my acma servers (supermicro motherboards)

The client installed without any problems. When I try to pull an image from the machine I get the error 'Network Initialization failed - the dos-mode client cannot proceed. unable to obtain IP address via DHCP"

I have tried several different dos drivers - used the /fni switch - and just about everything else I could find in the forums. But nothing will work.

does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks
Rick

I just tried on a poweredge 2800 and had the same problem. Not sure, but now I am thinking the problem is the dual nics on the boxes. I thought gss 2.0 worked with multiple nics.

> I thought gss 2.0 worked with multiple nics.

It does in the main, although as with the single-NIC situation we are still reliant to some extent on the network card drivers. Also, if the dual NICs are of an identical hardware type, we need the DOS drivers to support configuration options that let them bind to the correct instance of the hardware. There isn't a well-established standard for this, although there is a widely-used convention for settings in the PROTOCOL.INI file to select the PCI-bus bus number and slot number which indentifies the particular NIC, while the UNDI driver has some switches to select this.

I'm not familiar with the acma servers, but the PowerEdge has two identical Intel NICs, so in the absence of any explicit setting to pick the network driver instance, the DOS network drivers may be binding to the first instance of the hardware they find.

thanks for the reply
Is there a doc or anything that would give me more information on how to configure the dual nics to work on my servers?