[syslinux] Multihomed DHCPD w/ PXE

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Hunter Cobbs wrote:
> Just as an aside... I've had no problems with the TFTP servers from Fedora
> Core 3 or higher.  Also, Suse 9.0 Pro and higher distros seem to work fine.
> 
> On 6/23/06, James Courtier-Dutton <James at superbug.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Jason Gerfen wrote:
>>> I have a machine configured to listen on multiple nets for DHCPD
>>> requests and for each static host defined in the dhcpd.conf that is a
>>> member of PXE group I have this configuration available:
>>>
>>>
>>> I am recieving the error: Open timeout when attempting to gather the
>>> pxelinux.0 file. Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>> That is a tftp problem.
>> It seems that not all tftp servers support pxe correctly.
>> I use a package called "tftp-hpa", that works.
>>
>> James
>>

To expand on this. netkit-tftp  does not work, while tftp-hpa does.

Note: These are the package names in gentoo.