[syslinux] Intel Boot Agent: PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout for correctly configured tftp-hpa

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 8 10:01:32 PDT 2006


张韡武 wrote:
> 在 2006-09-07四的 21:17 -0700,H. Peter Anvin写道:
> 
>>> group {
>>>   option vendor-class-identifier "PXEClient";
>>>   next-server 10.0.0.32;
>>>   filename "pxelinux.0";
>>>   option PXE.mtftp-ip 0.0.0.0;
>>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>   vendor-option-space PXE;
>>>
>> Drop the MTFTP line.
> 
> This MTFTP line is borrowed from an article from IBM article "How to
> install Linux over PXE"
> http://www-900.ibm.com/developerWorks/cn/linux/l-tip-prompt/l-pex/index.shtml
> 
> The purpose of that line is to tell the booting machine not to try mtftp
> (send 0.0.0.0 as mtftp address to client means client should not try
> mtftp)
> 

It's known to break some PXE stacks, though.

> I also tried to remove that option, the behavior is the same.

Try also removing option vendor-class-identifier.  That, too, is known 
to break some stacks.

	-hpa




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