UEFI/PXE boot from different server

Lamar Milligan lmilligan at co.walton.ga.us
Tue Jun 9 12:58:14 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Hiebert" <vic at sfu.ca>
> To: dhcp-users at lists.isc.org
> Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 4:22:32 PM
> Subject: UEFI/PXE boot from different server

> We are trying to UEFI boot a Dell using PXE, and the client will only attempt to
> download it's boot file from the tftp server if it is the same IP as the DHCP
> server.  Is this expected behavior, or perhaps a vendor specific choice by
> Dell?
> 
> Using dhcpd 4.2.5 on CentOS 7.  Dell is a 7010 running the latest BIOS.
> 
> With the dhcpd server using IP 10.0.0.1 the below dhcpd.conf works, changing
> next-server to any other IP doesn't:
> 
> subnet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>        option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
>        option routers 10.0.0.254;
>        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> }
> 
>        host uefi-client {
>                fixed-address 10.0.0.2;
>                hardware ethernet 90:B1:1C:A1:B2:B4;
>                filename "somefile.efi";
>                next-server 10.0.0.1;
>        }
> 
> -Victor
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Shouldn't your subnet be 10.0.0.0 instead of 10.0.0.1?  Simple things like that have confounded me in the past, perhaps this is one of those cases.  Good luck, 

Lamar 


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