In some cases, when you configure a network interface for Oracle VM Server to retrieve IP addresses via DHCP, and then bring up that interface, it cannot retrieve an IP address and the following error occurs:
Determining IP information for interface_name
...
failed; no link present. Check cable?
This issue can be caused when the time it takes the network
interface to come up is greater than the time set for the
LINKDELAY
environment variable.
Workaround: Set the value of the
LINKDELAY
to a value of 10 or higher in the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
file, as in the following example:
DEVICE=eth3 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 ONBOOT=yes LINKDELAY=10
Bug 22514518