Re: gPXE and Altiris PXE server (ProxyDHCP)

Viswanath Krishnamurthy wrote:
> gPXE seems to be failing with Altiris (HP deployment pack) PXE server 
> (proxyDHCP mode) and regular Windows DHCP server on the same network.
>
> gPXE sends DHCP DISCOVER
> Both Altiris (running on different server) and DHCP server responds 
> with DHCP Offer
> gPXE accepts IP address from regular DHCP server and sends DHCP 
> REQUEST and receives DHCP ACK from DHCP server.
> It now enters proxy mode and sends out DHCP request to port 67
> Altiris ignores it
>
> Onboard PXE NIC works fine (HP nic)
>
> Next I changed the proxy_port to 4011 (PXE_PORT)  and it worked fine 
> (in dhcp.c file). It seems like Altiris is listening on port 4011 and 
> not 67 and causes the problem where gPXE times out and says "No root 
> path or file name specified".

Would you be so kind as to try Joshua Oreman's fix at 
http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe-staging.git;a=commitdiff;h=4121ed2542cc41e666a27aba122ceed48a3e70bb 
?  A report for this patch's compatibility with Altiris would be fantastic!

> I know there have been recent fixes for dnsmasq which could have 
> caused this regression

Pretty much, yes.  Josh's patch cleared things up for another product.

Also, please note that there is a gPXE mailing-list.  Info at: 
http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe

Thanks!

- Shao Miller

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