On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 04:52:29PM +0100, Marco Feichtinger wrote:
> My router at home also serves as the DHCP server for the network.
> 
> I have a plan9 file server and now want to pxe boot a second machine from it.
> On the file server I have 'ip/dhcpd -sS' running, since it also serves bootp 
> requests.
> 
> Now when i pxe boot the second machine, it loads 9boot, but when searching 
> for the 
> /cfg/pxe/<mac address> file, it uses the ip address of my router.
> 
> Boot Message:
>         pxe on ether0 .
>         (<router ip>!69): /cfg/pxe/<mac address> 
> .T.T.T.T.T.T.T.T.T.Ttftpread1st: failed to connect to server (<router ip>!69)
> 
> How can I pxe boot other machines, without my file server acting as dhcp 
> server for the whole network?

don't run two dhcp servers.  turn off the one on your fileserver and
configure your router to pass next-server: <fileserver-ip> to clients
that should pxe boot from the fileserver.  it just needs to support
tftp.

khm

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