Re: [Etherboot-users] Re: DHCP offer not accepted

[Jim M. <ja...@Mc...>]

On Wed, February 8, 2006 7:07 am, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>> Jim, I looked the suggested dhcpd.conf file, made a mix of it and mine=

>> and
>> things started to work. The other problem was that the tftpd xinetd
>> config
>> file was chroot to another directory than the standard /tftpboot or / =
.
>> After correcting this issue too, I have an VMware machine, a K6II box
>> and
>> a Pentium1 200MHz MMX box all working perfectly=21=21=21
>
> I recently encountered this problem after upgrading my server from
> Mandriva
> 2005LE to 2006.0.
>
> It turns out that the current dhcpd sends the next-server address as
> 0.0.0.0
> if the next-server line is missing from dhcpd.conf. Etherboot does not
> like
> this, and rejects the DHCPOFFER.
>
> According to the dhcpd.conf(5) manpage, the line should be optional,
> defaulting to the current server address.


Take a look at this wiki entry for more info on the change in ISC's dhcpd=
:

   http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/DhcpdSiaddr

Jim McQuillan
jam=40Ltsp.org




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