[syslinux] ISC DHCPD Problem and Solution.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> 
> I have the same problem (Thanks Gal!) and since I didn't see an answer
> to hpa's question, made tcpdumps. Client is 193.110.157.25, dhcp/tftp-hpa
> server is 193.110.157.30.
> 
> *ware used:
> Intel eepro/100+  (82557/8/9 rev 9, board assembly 748564-005, romchecksum
>                    0xdb8681d)
> 
> syslinux 1.76-1.i386.rpm
> intel boot agent 2.6 build 004
> intel undi pxe-2.0 build 071
> tftp-hpa-0.30
> ISC dhcpd V3.0pl1
> 
> tcpdumps are at: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/pxe/
> 

I looked at these dumps, and they look completely normal to me; the
transfer clearly is operating as it should.

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.

	-hpa