Fwd: gPXE and Altiris PXE server (ProxyDHCP)

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From: Viswanath Krishnamurthy <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] gPXE and Altiris PXE server (ProxyDHCP)
To: Shao Miller <[email protected]>


 Thanks.. That did the trick. It works fine now with Altiris. I am sure this
fix is needed for Windows RIS and works similar to to Altiris

Can we get this fix into main gPXE tree?

Thanks,
Viswa



On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Viswanath Krishnamurthy <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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