Do you have the MAC defined on both UA servers?  If so you will enter a
race condition and get some strange results.

Brad Erdman
UMIACS Staff

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> Subject: [Unattended] Pxebooting from wrong tftpboot server... What
the
> heck?
> 
> 
> (I've done a search of the list archives and googled around a bit
first...
> haven't found anything, so I'm gonna ask here.)
> 
> Good news...  We have PXE/Unattended/AD/Windows installs working
great!
> 
> Bad news... UA server has a dying disk.
> 
> Good news...  I build a new server, and have DHCP PXE response
changed.
> 
> Bad news...  Clients still insist on tftp-ing to the old server.
> 
> So I set up another machine indentical to the first.  Before shutting
down
> the old server, I want to test the new server.  So I call networking
and
> have them change the PXE section of the DHCP response for a test
subnet to
> the new server (which happens to have a 10 net address).
> 
> When I try to install a machine in this test subnet, it happily pulls
the
> pxelinux.0 image from the old UA server, not the new UA server.
> 
> I've verified that the DHCP server is telling clients in the test
subnet
> to use the new UA server, by using tcpdump.
> 
> If I shut off tftpd on the old UA server, clients hang after pulling
an
> address.
> 
> I've manually tftped pxelinux.0 from the new UA server, so at least
that
> part is working.
> 
> Is there some sort of fall-back-on-broadcasting thing going on here?
> Anyone have some ideas?  We had a similar problem when we switched
over
> from RIS, but solved it by shutting down the RIS server.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
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