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

[RgSalisbury]

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

No & thanks for the feedback Axel!

It's   been my understanding that next-server relates to the server needed 
after the dhcpd server. (the tftp server)

As the tftp server is on the same machine as dhcpd  (and has been the case 
often before) i comment it out.

I will try with it stipulated. --- 





> 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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