Re: [Etherboot-users] Tftp ip in rom image

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

Ricardo Carrillo Cruz wrote:
>>Not that it answers your question, but did you try server-name or:
>>
>>       option tftp-server-name text;
>>
>>          This option is used to identify a TFTP server and,
>>if  supported  by
>>          the  client, should have the same effect as the server-name
>>declaraâ
>>          tion.   BOOTP clients are unlikely to  support  this  option.
>>Some
>>          DHCP clients will support it, and others actually require it.
>>
>>^Carl
>>
> 
> Mmmmm,interesting,where do i put the directive you suggest me?
> What is the exact syntax?

There are 2 you can pick from - not sure if there is any difference:
$ man dhcpd.conf
           The next-server statement
             next-server server-name;
             The  next-server  statement is used to specify the host address of
             the server from which the initial  boot  file  (specified  in  the
             filename  statement)  is  to  be loaded.   Server-name should be a
             numeric IP address or a domain name.   If no next-server parameter
             applies to a given client, the DHCP serverâs IP address is used.

Not to be confused with:
$ man dhcpd.conf
           The server-name statement
             server-name name ;
             The  server-name statement can be used to inform the client of the
             name of the server from which it is booting.   Name should be  the
             name that will be provided to the client.



In dhcpd.conf:
# /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
subnet 192.168.1.0  netmask 255.255.255.0 {
         range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.254 ;
}
server-name=192.168.1.1;
filename="pxelinux.0" ;
# eof: /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

I think that is all you need for pxe (you may need other things like "option 
domain-name-servers" for other things, but you probably already have that in place.)

^C