[syslinux] next-server and tftp

[Nick Garfield]

Hi,

A colleague of mine today showed me his dhcp/tftp configuration with
pxelinux.  He booted, from the network, an intel based machine with no
disk.  I was impressed.  So I looked at the configuration he was using
and it was simple....he had ISC dhcpd v2 and a tftp server configured as
detailed on your web site.  Curious, I suggested that he move the tftp
server to another machine (on a different IP address).  We changed the
next-server statement in dhcpd.conf to the new ip address to agree with
the changes.  When we tried to boot the machine from the network the
machine failed to boot.  Curiously the network card (running intel boot
agent 2.0) said the packet was sourced at the dhcp server address and
not the next-server address (which is what I expected).

Can anyone explain what is happening here....

Thanks

Nick

Nick Garfield
IT/CS Campus Networking Section
CERN
Geneva
Switzerland

Tel:+41 22 76 74 533