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

[Dyks, Axel (XL)]

RgSalisbury wrote:
>> 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"?
> 
> 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.

Search for "next-server" on

  http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/

or read the following thread

  http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2007-May/thread.html#8488

and you'll see that this is a common problem/misunderstanding.

:-) Axel