[syslinux] PXE boot says server address is 0.0.0.0

Nicolas Courtel courtel at cena.fr
Tue Jul 4 03:31:31 PDT 2006


Hello,

I have set up 2 PXE servers, on Linux Debian Sarge and Etch, on which I 
use syslinux + ISC dhcp3 + tftp-hpa for booting.

The older one, on Sarge, has been working fine for more than a year, 
great :-)

The new one, on Etch, with the exact same config files, does not : the 
DHCP part seems to work, but at the end pxelinux seems to lose the 
server's IP address; this what I see on the console:

[...]
CLIENT IP: 10.192.33.187  MASK: 255.255.252.0  DHCP IP: 10.192.32.48
GATEWAY IP: 10.192.32.254

PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2005-12-18 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
[...]
My IP address seems to be the 0AC021BB 10.192.33.187
ip=10.192.33.187:0.0.0.0:10.192.32.254:255.255.252.0
[... ]

All the addresses are correct, including DHCP server, but for some 
reason this one becomes 0.0.0.0 at the end, and of course tftp fails.

Software versions are the following:
(work) dhcp3 3.0.1-2, syslinux 2.11-0.1, tftpd-hpa 0.40-4.1
(fail)    dhcp3 3.0.4-6, syslinux 3.11-3,    tftpd-hpa 0.42-1

Has someone a clue about this?

Thanks,

-- 
Nicolas




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