[syslinux] pxelinux.bin (3.80) hanging at the beginning of menu.c32 TFTP transfer

[Geert Stappers]

Op 20090530 om 08:23 schreef Philippe Auphelle:
> Geert:
> > Right now _is assumed_ that the two DHCP servers are not causing trouble.
> > My advice is to reconfigure the network to 1 DHCP server.
> 
> That's not an option.
> First, if your DHCP server is of the minimal kind (think of a regular
> $50 commodity router), then you just  don't have any way to config any
> PXE options in. But the PXE spec has had forever provision to handle
> this, by using a separate PXE server to handle the PXE part.
> 
> Second, that two-phase discovery / offer is handled (very well) by the
> PXE firmware. At the time when pxelinux crashes, the handling of the
> dual DHCP / PXE servers is over, and the firmware has collected,
> processed, used and stored all the information it needed from both.
> The information might still be in RAM and available from the PXE API
> if pxelinux didn't remove it, but that's about all.
> pxelinux has full control of the machine at this point, and it doesn't
> care whether the information it uses came from one or two places.


An option that I see to get one single DHCP server in the network.

* disable the DHCP server in the router.

* fully configure the other DHCP server.



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