<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="" class="">Hello,<br style=""></div><div style="" class="" itemprop="text">
<div style="" class="">Trying to setup a PXE boot on a linux client, I get this error</div>
<pre style="" class=""><code style="" class=""> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 08 00 27 69 73 7A GUID: 000000000-0000-0000-0000-8C89A5E06C86
CLIENT IP: 10.0.2.2 MASK: 255.255.255.240 DHCP IP: 10.0.2.1
PXE-E11: ARP timeout
PXE-E11: ARP timeout
PXE-E38: TFTP cannot open connection
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! system halted
</code></pre>
<div style="" class="">The dhcpd.conf contains</div>
<pre style="" class=""><code style="" class=""> subnet 10.0.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.240 {
rage 10.0.2.2 10.0.2.10;
allow booting;
allow bootp;
class "pxeclients" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient";
next-server 10.0.2.3;
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
}
</code></pre>
<div style="" class="">The boot log shows that the client got the ip address, and on the server, tftp is running according to</div>
<pre style="" class=""><code style="" class=""> # /etc/init.d/xinetd status
xinetd (pid 2728) is running...
</code></pre>
<div style="" class="">and dhcp is responding to the request. I wonder why arp message timed out? </div>
</div><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class="">Regards,<br style="" class="">Mahmood</div></div></body></html>