On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:38:07PM -0400, Chris Vanhoof wrote:
> First off Im running 3.6 on an alpha.  This machine serves as a dhcp 
> server for my home network.  I recently purchased a Xyplex Terminal 
> server, and I need to boot it from a tftp server.
> 
> All is well if I tell the terminal server to grab the image from the 
> dhcp server, but I would like to run tftp on another machine.  I have 
> read this is posible, using the next-server option, but the terminal 
> server times out.
> 
> I have tried things like this:
> 
>         host termserv.ouwish.dmz {
>                 hardware ethernet 08:00:87:01:83:f1;
>                 fixed-address 10.10.1.16;
>               next-server 10.10.1.17;
>                 option root-path "/tftpboot";
>                 filename "mx1500.sys";
>         }

Add this too, you never know. Old BOOTP should use this, but recent
dhcp client could:

        option tftp-server-name "192.168.12.1"; 

Not that I have a Xyplex Terminal server.

> 
> tftp does work (tested) on 10.10.1.17.  Any ideas, or am I just doing 
> something completely wrong?
> 

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