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

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 12:07 +0000 schrieb Tony van der Hoff:
> > 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!!!
> 
> 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.

The problem is that the default obviously changed from the current
server address to not sending that information at all.
This problem has been mentioned several weeks ago, when ISC decided to
switch off the next-server default. A pity they did not see that sending
this option was a good idea in the first place...

As we all know, manpages do not always keep pace with program
development, as it seems to be the case here.

Regards
Anselm