Hi Gregg,

Does Alice have more than one network interface (one into 172.xx.xx and another 
into 192.168.x.x)?  If so, then try disabling reverse path checking in the 
kernel on alice with "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv5/conf/default/rp_filter; cat 
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter; echo 2 > 
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter; echo 2 > 
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter".  Note the old values in case you want 
to change them back (or just reboot alice).  If that doesn't work, then seeing 
the dhcp request/response would be helpful.  You can get that by doing a 
tcpdump on alice with "tcpdump -nnvvi any -s 0 port bootps or port bootpc".  
Also please provide the ip addresses of the interfaces on alice and bob (at 
least the last octet).

Ryan


On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Gregg Stock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you in advance for taking a look at this.
> 
> I have an "interesting" problem trying to get a PXE boot system setup.
> 
> I have a dnsmasq server "Alice" that handles DNS and DHCP for several
> networks. I'm trying to add a PXE boot environment and am currently
> using two different PXE boot servers. Server "Bob" runs Cobbler for
> installations. Alice also runs TFTP/PXE and server some system recovery
> distros.
> 
> On the LAN network, I'm testing using Virtualbox. On our DMZ network,
> I'm using Libvirt/KVM.
> 
> Alice serves up boot menu using pxe-prompt that directs the user to the
> desired boot server. This works fine with Virtualbox but not with KVM.
> 
> From what I can gather using tcpdump, when I execute
> 
>          pxe-service=x86PC, "Cobbler LAN Installation Server",
> pxelinux, 172.xx.xx.35
> 
> tcpdump shows:
> IP 172.xx.xx.103.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:
> 
> And and everything goes smoothly
> 
> But when this executes...
> 
>     pxe-service=x86PC, "Cobbler DMZ Installation Server", pxelinux,
> 192.168.x.35
> 
> tcpdump shows:
> 192.168.x.35.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.pxe
> 
> The KVM guest issues bootpc and pxe but nobody is listening on 4011
> 
> Both requests are to the same server, just different interfaces.
> 
> I'm not sure how to proceed, it seems like I needs a DHCP proxy server
> to listen on port 4011 but it would be nice if I could keep the stuff
> that works on Virtualbox.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
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