PXE Boot Problems

[Martyn Welch]

On 08/12/10 12:31, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using the ISC DHCP server to PXE boot an number of hosts for
> development and testing for a number of years. I tend to use the version
> of the ISC DHCP server provided as part of the Linux distribution I am
> using at the time, until now that has been based on 3.0.3 (part of
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) however we are in the process of moving towards one
> based on 3.1.3 (part of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).
> 
> This is the cut-down configuration that I have been using to try and
> resolve my problem:
> 
> #
> # DHCP Server Configuration file.
> #   see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample
> #
> ddns-update-style none;
> 
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>         range 192.168.0.150 192.168.0.254;
>         default-lease-time 3600;
>         max-lease-time 4800;
>         option routers 192.168.0.1;
>         option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>         option domain-name "test.lan";
>         option time-offset -7;
> }
> 
> host job912f9d725d218e6bb0c42e533c8b08e0-0 {
> 	hardware ethernet 00:80:8e:02:57:ca;
> 	fixed-address 192.168.0.27;
> 	option tftp-server-name "192.168.0.1";
> 	option bootfile-name "pxefile0";
> 	filename "pxefile0";
> 	next-server 192.168.0.1;
> }
> 
> This seems to work with the newer version of the ISC DHCP server for
> most of our hosts, though it is failing for newer hosts using the Intel
> Boot Agent.
> 

I've discovered that I was wrong - this configuration doesn't work on
any version of the ISC DHCP server that I've tried.

Is it possible to boot multiple hosts from different boot files when the
dhcp server is presented with a Parameter Request List in the
DHCPDISCOVER packet?

Can anyone point me to any documentation?

Martyn

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