Re: [Etherboot-developers] dhcpd won't answer the initial broadcast from the client

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>I have religiously followed the READMEs from the distribution. Have the
>initial broadcast packet coming from the client. But the dhcpd server ( runs
>on vinilla RedHat 6.1) will not answer that sucker. Have put a monitor on
>the net and verified the packet is as it should be. Have studied the
>/etc/dhcpd.conf file which I copy here.
>
>option domain-name "test.com";
>option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
>option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>	filename "/tftpdir/vmlinuz.xterm";
>	host xterm {
>		hardware ethernet 00:40:53:01:22:36;
>		option host-name "xterm";

I don't use this option. I use

use-host-decl-names on;

in the global options.

>		fixed-address 192.168.0.100;
>	}
>}

How come you are handing out an address of 0.100 on a subnet of 1.0,
with a netmask of /24?

Also maybe your MAC address is wrong?

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