[syslinux] PXEboot: can't find configfile on tftpd server

[Geert Stappers]

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:29:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Geert Stappers wrote:
> >
> >On the Etherboot mailinglist wrote Jim McQuillan
> >( http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12947761 )
> >
> >| I've had a dialog with David Hankins of ISC, and he pointed out that the
> >| intended behaviour of a dhcp client should be, if a netbooting client
> >| gets an offer that has a siaddr field of zeros, then it should ignore
> >| that offer and hope for a better offer from another dhcp server.
> >
> >That approach allows having having multiple DHCP server on the network.
> >( one for Internet access and another DHCP server for netbooting. )
> >
> 
> By the time you fall into PXELINUX, the DHCP data we have is what we 
> have.  The decision has already been done.


Okay, the decision has already been done.

And what is the outcome?


St

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