Re: dhcp3 and next-server

2003-02-01 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
i think this is a common practice but not mandatory. Now, the client may make this assumption and possibly ignore the dhcp option. If you want to be sure that dhcp send the proper option, take a sniffer trace and see if it is set properly JeF On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 08:04, Dave Watkins wrote: > I c

Re: dhcp3 and next-server

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Watkins
I could be wrong but it is my understanding that the TFTP has to be the same machine as the DHCP server. Certainly that is the onbly way I've ever been able to get it working. At 21:14 1/02/2003 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, Am using dhcp3-server and have noticed that the 'next-server

Re: Diskless clients - booting from floppy

2003-02-01 Thread andrew
Hi all, am getting good at answering my own questions... The autoconfig option is used so that you can PASS the kernel info, and not for booting and starting a dhcp client, etc... my mistake... Used etherboot to get it working... On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:53:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

dhcp3 and next-server

2003-02-01 Thread andrew
hi all, Am using dhcp3-server and have noticed that the 'next-server' option doesnt seem to work when booting of 3c905tx-m cards with PXE or via their own mode with DHCP... it works however with BOOTP. have also tried 'server-name, and option tftp-server-name'... For some reason the machine kee

Re: Diskless clients - booting from floppy

2003-02-01 Thread andrew
I made a mistake in the kernel config Have now got the kernel to boot, but it doesnt seem to want to contact the bootp or dhcp server. Any ideas? Thanks Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Diskless clients - booting from floppy

2003-02-01 Thread andrew
Hi all, Am trying to setup boot floppy so that I can boot via DHCP, and mount the kernel via NFS. Have compiled a 2.4.18 with 'autoconfigure IP' - DHCP enabled. The kernel has NO modules. Took a formated 3.5" disk, and then dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 mknod /dev/nfs c 0 255 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/nfs