Clients not requesting address

[Wolfgang Zweimueller]

"Glenn Satchell" <glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au> writes:

> On 09/01/10 23:06, Wolfgang Zweimueller wrote:
>>
>> Dear List!
>>
>> I have a weird situation where PXE-clients most of the time do not
>> request an offered IP-address. Maybe one can give a hint where or how
>> to search.
[...]

> It may be that there is some missing dhcp-option in the offer which 
> causes the client to ignore it. Try using tcpdump to look at the 
> incoming dhcp packets and see what options are being requested.

Thank you for this input.

As there is also a PXE-Server (on MS-Windows) involved, we actually
concentrate on the PXE part. It seems that we loose the answer
(network packets) from the Windows server...


cu,
Wolfgang