Re: gPXE and Altiris PXE server (ProxyDHCP)
Viswanath Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:47:37 -0800
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This is exactly the fix I was thinking, I will definitely test it out and get back shortly -Viswa On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Shao Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Etherboot-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss