Am Montag, den 05.12.2005, 15:57 -0700 schrieb Steve Dibb: > Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > > > I do not at all understand what is going on in the packet log you sent > > earlier. This does not look like DHCP packets to me. Are your clients > > running etherboot, or (Intel/...) PXE or some proprietary "boot agent" > > that might try to do its own discovery method? Where did the client > > (seems to be the .198, if I figure that right) get that address from in > > the first place? If your problems persist, a dump right from the moment > > of powering on the thin client could shed some light onto this. > > Well, I finally realized what I was doing wrong -- I had TFTP running on > three servers which was probably confusing things, and once I trimmed it > to one, corrected my firewall, and set next-server in dhcpd.conf, > everything is good.
Especially having the "next-server" right is important. Trying to make a LTSP network boot with a typo in the next-server setting can be very unnerving. (Especially if it is 192.168 versus 192.186...) For those using etherboot, the "next-server" can be overriden (in recent versions like 5.4 and the later 5.3 iirc) by specifing a full URL like "tftp://192.168.0.1//ltsp/vmlinuz.ltsp"; as filename. > Still, I dont understand why the TFTP server was sending responses on > those ports. The clients in this case do have Intel motherboards + > network cards -- does that make a difference? It looked like it was > booting PXE 2.0 or something. It should. But perhaps it also does some proprietary stuff if no DHCP server can be found in the first attempt to do so. I saw a PXE bios recently that had some kind of fallback to RPL and another protocol I never saw before. Quite ugly, anyway. I did not try to netboot that machine at all, so the safe thing to do was disable that crap of a software :-) Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
