Re: gPXE and Altiris PXE server (ProxyDHCP)

Viswanath Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:47:37 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
>

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