What can you see from the VM?  Does it pick up dhcp but fail tftp?

Is cobbler generating the necessary file for pxe?   i.e.
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/00-ma-ca-dd-re-ss

I am under the impression that netboot is enabled (as you have stated using
cobblers generated MAC works). But I still feel the need to ask if you have
it setup for a static address, or are pulling from a pool.  If from a pool,
are sure you have not ran out of leases?

What do you see on the VM console when pxe fails?
On Nov 10, 2015 12:58 PM, "Sam Sen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Using cobbler web, I inserted the generated MAC into the Mac Address line.
> Cobbler sync and started up a blank VM. Nothing.
>
> If I click the "Generate Random Mac" button under the "Networking" tab,
> grab the Mac it gives me and populate the field within my VM settings, then
> it works.
>
>
> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Matt Luettgen
> Reply-To: "[email protected]"
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 1:52 PM
> To: "[email protected]"
> Subject: Re: [cobbler] [EXTERNAL] Re: DHCP with custom MAC Addresses?
>
> How did you populate cobbler with the MACs?
> On Nov 10, 2015 12:19 PM, "Sam Sen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I used a python script I found online as well as a website that generates
>> them I know it works because once the VM is running, the VM runs just fine
>> once I plug in the Mac that was generated. For whatever reason, cobbler
>> doesn't allow hosts to pxeboot unless cobbler generates it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:12 AM -0800, "Matt Luettgen" <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I certainly hope not.  Are you sure you are feeding it legit MACs?  Are
>> you using the command line app, web interface, or the API to add/edit MACs?
>> On Nov 10, 2015 5:48 AM, "Sam Sen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running 2.6 ... Was it removed?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:53 PM -0800, "Matt Luettgen" <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Custom MAC addresses work with the 2.4 branch.  Cobbler uses Pythons
>>> netaddr to check the validity of MACs.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Jörgen Maas <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I dont think so :(
>>>> Sounds like a legit feature request, mayb you can work on this?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Sam Sen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I generated a handful of valid MAC Addresses using a Python script I
>>>>> created. For whatever reason, my Vms won't pick up a DHCP address from my
>>>>> cobbler server (Cobbler managed DHCP). I finally realized that unless I
>>>>> have Cobbler generate the MAC addresses, my Vms wont PXEBoot. I ended up
>>>>> using the MAC generated via the Cobbler web, but I prefer to use different
>>>>> ranges within our network. Is there a setting somewhere that Cobbler only
>>>>> accepts a certain range?
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