[TriLUG] DHCP,PXE AND TFTP

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 11:32:14 EDT 2005


I'd drop iptables as long as you're on a trusted LAN with nothing open
to outside.

Once you make sure it works, bring iptables back up with the
appropriate rules set up.

On 8/5/05, unctux <unctux at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:49:37 -0400 John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote.
> >On 8/5/05, unctux <unctux at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> >> First time trying to set this up. I am trying to set up a PXE server with
> 
> >> SUSE 9.3.
> 
> >> I am able to tftp from each machine to each other and the client is able
> 
> >to
> 
> >> recieve the ip address from the DHCP server. I am also able to view each
> 
> >> machine thru samba. This is only a two machine set up, (client and
> server)
> 
> >> just for testing purposes only.
> 
> >>
> 
> >> When i boot just to network only it will not find the dhcp server at all
> 
> >and
> 
> >> after some time it just times out with this error:
> 
> >> PXE-E55:ProxyDHCP service did not reply to request on port 4011.
> 
> >>
> 
> >> I have edited the dhcpd.conf to reflect the pxe-server ip and the file
> 
> >> 'pxelinux.0
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >Just for giggles, is iptables running on the dhcp server machine?
> 
> It appears that iptables are running. should i edit those or disble due to
> the fact this is on a private network?
> 
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