[syslinux] Has anyone any insight as to why RedHatEnterprise Level 5 is broken as far as PXE booting is concerned.

Dyks, Axel (XL) xl at xlsigned.net
Mon May 28 08:47:27 PDT 2007


RgSalisbury wrote:
>> Could you produce a wireshark trace of the traffic?
>>
> A little more with verbosity turned up & no arp messages
> #############################################################################
>  
> 04:20:17.129158 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 20, id 16, offset 0, flags [none], proto: 
> UDP (17), length: 91) 172.16.0.253.57089 > 0.0.0.0.tftp: 63 RRQ 
> "pxelinux.cfg/01-00-01-6c-ca-24-7b" octet tsize 0 blks
> 

Did you set "next-server" in "dhcpd.conf"?

Seems to me that the client tries to TFTP from 0.0.0.0, after retrieving "pxelinux.0".

RHEL 5 might have a newer version "dhcpd" which no longer sets "next-server"
to "boot/dhcp server" when missing in "dhcpd.conf".

Axel




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