[syslinux] odd pxelinux/tftp-hpa problem

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue May 7 16:35:33 PDT 2002


James S. Martin wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the help.  We have 3 network interfaces on the boot server.
> hme0, hme1, and hme2.  hme2 is doing the DHCP, and is on the "81"
> network, hme0 is on the "83" network and serving TFTP.  The machine we
> are building is on the "81" network.  In the dhcpd.conf we had the
> next-server line explicitly pointing to the IP address for hme0 (83
> network).  After I removed that line and restarted the dhcp server, it
> worked fine.  So it seems that for some reason the PXE stack doesn't
> like having a next-server line if the machine being built is on the same
> network as the DHCP server.  That really doesn't make any sense to me.
> But it works now :).
> 

It could be a simple PXE stack bug, but since you're referring to these
interfaces as "hme", I'm guessing it's a Sun box.  It could mean it's an
issue with the handling of ARP inside the PXE stack, since Suns have the
same MAC on all interfaces.

	-hpa





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