On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:28:54 +0100
Gregor Waluga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after I installed LTSP on my SuSE 8.1 machine successfully, I have
> some problems when trying to boot over my network.
> I have a RTL8139 chip on my network-card, but no ROM. So I generated
> a boot-ROM on www.rom-o-matic.net with a boot-header for disks. Then
> I wrote this on a disk.
> When I try to boot from the disk, everything is OK, but when he
> sends a DHCP-signal to the network, a point "." is shown... after
> afew seconds another one... but nothing else happens.
> Here's the /var/log/messages from my server:
>
> Dec 12 14:13:08 linux dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c1:26:0b:1f:e8 via
> eth0: network WORKSTATIONS: no free
> leases
> Dec 12 14:13:39 linux last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 12 14:14:19 linux dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c1:26:0b:1f:e8 via
> eth0: network WORKSTATIONS: no free
> leases
>
> I looked at the DHCP configuration but everything looks fine:
>
> # Sample configuration file for ISCD dhcpd
> #
> # Don't forget to set run_dhcpd=1 in /etc/init.d/dhcpd
> # once you adjusted this file and copied it to /etc/dhcpd.conf.
> #
>
> ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
> default-lease-time 21600; #600
> max-lease-time 21600; #7200
>
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
> option routers 192.168.0.254;
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.254;
> option domain-name "ltsp-server";
> option root-path "192.168.0.254:/opt/ltsp/i386";
>
> option option-128 code 128 = string;
> option option-129 code 129 = text;
>
> ###
> log-facility local7;
> ###
>
> shared-network WORKSTATIONS {
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> }
> }
>
> group {
> use-host-decl-names on;
> option log-servers 192.168.0.254;
>
> host ws001 {
> hardware ethernet 00:E0:06:E8:00:84;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.3;
> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-6";
> option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> option option-129 "NIC=eepro100";
> }
> host ws002 {
> hardware ethernet 00:D0:09:30:6A:1C;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.4;
> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-6";
> option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> option option-129 "NIC=tulip";
> }
> }
>
>
> I used the fixed addresses 192.168.0.3 and .4, because in my local
> network 192.168.0.1 is my main machine and 192.168.0.2 is my
> notebook. The ddns-update-style should be adhoc, as a
> SuSE-error-message told me before.
>
> No other hints in the manual of LTSPand in Googlegroups could solve
> the problem.
>
> Thanks a lot for any help!
>
Hi Gregor,
The hardware ethernet options you have in your dhcpd.conf file are
examples, replace them with your own from your workstations. Your log
file above suggests that one of your workstations hardware ethernet is
00:c1:26:0b:1f:e8
cheers,
-rob
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