[syslinux] TFTP issue

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Tue Oct 25 01:18:53 PDT 2005


>> > Which can't be right, because there's nothing at 0.0.0.0.
>> > I probably need to add the "next-server" option to the dhcpd.conf, but 
>> > can't PXELINUX just use the DHCP server as the fileserver?
>> > 
>> > (And, I seem to recall that it worked "before" even without any 
>> > next-server statement, but don't assume it.)
>> 
>> It worked before because previous versions of ISC DHCP defaulted to 
>> "next-server == boot server".  They removed that default without warning.

Only apt-get on some Debian message displayed a warning when I upgraded 
that old box.

>So what's the result here? Will this be fixed in tftp? Is there a patch?
>        Or is it DHCP issue which has to be fixed there?

Edit your dhcpd.conf and put a "next-server <myip>" in there, where myip is 
the ip of the dhcp server.


Jan Engelhardt
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