[syslinux] ISC DHCPD Problem and Solution.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>The names of your tcpdumps imply you're using PXE vendor-option-space
>>options.  I generally recommend avoiding them unless you really need
>>them; and if so to use a real PXE server.
> 
> 
> I didn't find a proper configuaration that worked on my card without the
> options. The pxe server that came with RedHat 8 also didn't seem to work
> at all. It also has no man page, no --help, and just a crappy contradicting
> document regarding it being able to run on the dhcp server. Add to that
> that their tftp-server was broken, and their images/pxeboot/vmlinuz was
> unusable, and their entire linux.[012] loading scheme fails, it is a
> wonder I actually got a redhat 8 pxe install working at all. It 90% of
> the information came from this mailing list archive.....
> 

Hmmm... their tftp server seems to be just tftp-hpa-0.29, so I'd be very
curious about what is broken about it:

: terminus 32 ; /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -V
tftp-hpa 0.29, with remap, with tcpwrappers
: terminus 33 ; cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)

I appreciate all the information, by the way.  It's a lot easier to
track down bugs this way :)

	-hpa