netbooting Apple Xserves, not working since dhcp version 3.0pl1-9a

Aaron Johnson ajohnson at terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Aug 16 14:26:28 UTC 2007


All,
I have several Apple PPC64 Xserves I have been able to netboot with dhcp 
version 3.0pl1-9a but with any new version I try dhcp won't even start  
I get the following error in /var/log/messages (this was with dhcp 
version 3.0.3-28)

Aug 16 14:21:52 localhost dhcpd: dhcpd startup failed
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 5: unknown option 
dhcp.mac-version
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd: option mac-version 0:
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd:        ^
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 6: unknown option 
dhcp.mac-user-name
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd: option mac-user-name "netboot"
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd:        ^
Aug 16 14:21:59 localhost dhcpd: Configuration file errors encountered 
-- exiting


The relavent psrt of my /etc/dhcp.conf file is:

allow bootp;
ddns-update-style interim;
default-lease-time 30000000000;
option mac-version 0:0:0:0;
option mac-user-name "netboot";

subnet 192.168.200.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers                  192.168.200.172;
option subnet-mask              255.255.255.0;
filename                        "yhpc-ppc64.img";
next-server                       192.168.200.172;
allow bootp;
range dynamic-bootp             192.168.200.100 192.168.200.199;
}



I have also tried upgrading to dhcp 3.0.6, 3.1.0, and 4.0.0 without any 
success.  I have looking through all the man pages for all version and 
the change log neither one says anything about needing to change the 
"option mac-..." lines for the newer versions, I was hoping someone 
could help me figure out this un-documented change.

Aaron


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