[syslinux] timeout: retrying... with atftpd and pxelinux
Jason Bodnar
jason at shakabuku.org
Thu Oct 7 22:48:11 PDT 2004
Well, isn't this interesting. I googled for any old messages I might have
posted about this when I got things working the first time. Sure enough there
was a post about setting ip_no_pmtu_disc so I did that and it still didn't
work. So I added --no-blksize to the atftpd params and still couldn't get it
to work.
On a whim, I decided to go back to tftpd-hpa and the thing booted faster than
I could see it!
Not sure why atftpd didn't work but I'm not going to worry about it.
Jason
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:38:32 -0500, Jason Bodnar wrote
> I'm trying to network boot a thin client using pxelinux. I had this working
> about a year ago but have since reinstalled my OS (went from RH9 to
> FC2). I'm using atftpd. The thin client gets the dhcp address fine
> and requests pxelinux.0. Eventually, it just times out. Here's the
> relevant info from /var/log/messages:
>
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: Advanced Trivial FTP server
> started (0.7)
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: started by inetd
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: logging level: 6
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: directory:
/home/jbodnar/projects/jambox/boot/
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: user: nobody.nogroup
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: log file: syslog
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: server timeout: 300
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: tftp retry timeout: 5
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: maximum number of thread: 100
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: option timeout: enabled
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: option tzise: enabled
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: option blksize: enabled
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: option multicast: enabled
>
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: address range: 239.255.0.0-255
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: port range: 1758
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: Serving pxelinux.0 to 192.168.1.15:2070
> Oct 7 23:14:36 home atftpd[4717]: blksize option -> 1456
>
> Oct 7 23:14:40 home atftpd[4717]: Serving pxelinux.0 to 192.168.1.15:2071
> Oct 7 23:14:40 home atftpd[4717]: blksize option -> 1456
> Oct 7 23:14:41 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:45 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:46 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
>
> Oct 7 23:14:48 home atftpd[4717]: Serving pxelinux.0 to 192.168.1.15:2072
> Oct 7 23:14:48 home atftpd[4717]: blksize option -> 1456
> Oct 7 23:14:50 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:51 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:53 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:55 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:56 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
> Oct 7 23:14:58 home atftpd[4717]: timeout: retrying...
>
> The Serving, blksize, timeout: retrying... cycle continues a few
> more times.
>
> Here's the relevant section from my dhcpd.conf:
>
> group {
>
> default-lease-time -1;
> use-host-decl-names on;
>
> option domain-name "d.shakabuku.org";
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
> option routers 192.168.1.1;
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>
> filename "pxelinux.0";
>
> host jambox {
> hardware ethernet 00:30:00:03:C0:44;
> fixed-address 192.168.1.15;
> }
>
> }
>
> I have atftpd run by xinetd and here's the conf for it:
>
> {
> disable = no
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol = udp
> wait = yes
> user = root
> server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
> server_args = -v /home/jbodnar/projects/jambox/boot
> }
>
> As I mentioned before, I had this same hardware working about a year
> ago. The only other change I've made (besides switching the server
> OS) is I replaced a dlink switch and am now using a dlink wireless
> router, but am only using the switch portion of it for this project.
>
> --
> Jason Bodnar
> jason at shakabuku.org
> http://www.shakabuku.org
>
> "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make
> your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of
> his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top
> of yours." -- President Andrew Shephard, "The American President"
>
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Jason Bodnar
jason at shakabuku.org
http://www.shakabuku.org
"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make
your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of
his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of
yours." -- President Andrew Shephard, "The American President"
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