[syslinux] tftpd-hpa issue: I think, anyway
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Nov 1 15:18:08 PST 2006
Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 29-10-2006 om 15:25 schreef Franklin M. Siler:
>> Oct 29 17:20:10 shamrock dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.180.70.255 to 00:16:76:82:fd:e2 via eth0
>> Oct 29 17:20:10 shamrock in.tftpd[4368]: RRQ from 10.180.70.255 filename /pxelinux.0
>> Oct 29 17:20:10 shamrock in.tftpd[4368]: tftp: client does not accept options
>
> "client does not accept options"
That's normal; many PXE clients request a filename with the tsize
option, and then responds with an error. This is solely for determining
the size of the file; the error is really "thanks, that's all I wanted
to know."
>> The requests for pxelinux.0/* aren't even showing up. BTW, subnet is
>> 10.180.64/20, so 10.180.70.255 is valid. Thanks for any advice.
>
> Please tell more about the client.
Mr. Siler sent me an off-list reply (please, people, report to the list
when you've found the answer):
> good thought, but off.
> For whatever reason, I later got things to work with no change in configuration on the client side. However, I did fuss with the next-server directive in DHCP..maybe the PXE bootloader was being fussy.
With the recent changes to ISC DHCP, you *must* have a next-server
directive.
-hpa
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