On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, sanath kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello friends, > I was trying to net boot my desktop machine. The desktop never is able > to get the IP address from my laptop. I was examining the packets using > wireshark. My desktop was sending dhcp request messages but my laptop never > responds with any dhcp offer message. I tried various configurations of > dhcp3 but none worked. Finally I uninstalled dhcp3-server and installed > dnsmasq and in a jiffy my desktop picked up the IP address from my laptop > and started to boot. Four of my friends also tried doing netboot with > dhcp3-server but in vain. Why is dhcp3-server so badly written. And cant you > ppl correct the bugs in it. Why is it a big headache to configure > dhcp3-server. Cant any GUI be written for it..? > I have not had a bad experience with dhcp3 server ever unless I made mistakes in the config file. I also do not understand how you started to get ip addressed when you installed dnsmasq. dnsmasq is some thing that works like a dns cacher for networks. One common mistake I used to do is in /etc/default/dhcp3 you have to tell it to listen on which interfaces the dhcp server should listen for serving addresses. That could be your problem.
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