On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi, folks,
We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild
machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out.
What's happening is that it tries in this order
.../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d
.../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025B
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0A802
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0A80
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0A
.../pxelinux.cfg/C0
.../pxelinux.cfg/C
.../pxelinux.cfg/default
The first are MAC addresses, etc. I want it to pull default. It takes
*minutes* to time out each option, so after a dozen or 15 min, when it
gets to defaul, tftp has timed it out.
I've never seen that sort of delay before, but it's tough to strace an
PXE environment. :-)
Now, our dhcpd config has this for pxeboot:
group
{
allow booting;
allow bootp;
filename "gpxelinux.0";
option-209 = "pxelinux.cfg/default";
option subnet-mask 255.255.254.0;
option routers <our router>;
default-lease-time 172800; # 2 days.
max-lease-time 432000; # 5 days.
Do you have a next-server option that points to your tftp server? I've
always hardcoded an IPv4 address into that setting:
group {
# normal stuff
next-server 10.11.12.13;
filename "gpxelinux.0";
}
Also, in case you're ever interested, I've written a script that
generates suitable IPv4-based filenames for pre-default usage:
https://github.com/heinlein/pxehex
--
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
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