DHCP and etherboot client

I amt trying to get an etherboot client to boot on my home network. I have
set up a DHCP Server (ISC 3.0) on the server and can see in the log the
client requesting an ip address and the Server offering one. However the
client seems to "ignore?" the offer and makes another request.

I currently have entries for :-

filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.22-ltsp-2"
root-path "192.168.1.21:/opt/ltsp/i386"
tftp-server-name "192.168.1.21"

Any suggestions?

oldandgrey <nospam@for_me.com> wrote:
> I amt trying to get an etherboot client to boot on my home network. I have
> set up a DHCP Server (ISC 3.0) on the server and can see in the log the
> client requesting an ip address and the Server offering one. However the
> client seems to "ignore?" the offer and makes another request.
>
> I currently have entries for :-
>
> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.22-ltsp-2"

Can TFTP find this bootfile?

> root-path "192.168.1.21:/opt/ltsp/i386"

Are you exporting this directory?

> tftp-server-name "192.168.1.21"
>
> Any suggestions?
>

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <(E-Mail Removed)>
Linux solution for data management and processing.

William Park wrote:

> oldandgrey <nospam@for_me.com> wrote:
>> I amt trying to get an etherboot client to boot on my home network. I
>> have set up a DHCP Server (ISC 3.0) on the server and can see in the log
>> the client requesting an ip address and the Server offering one. However
>> the client seems to "ignore?" the offer and makes another request.
>>
>> I currently have entries for :-
>>
>> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.22-ltsp-2"
>
> Can TFTP find this bootfile?
>
>> root-path "192.168.1.21:/opt/ltsp/i386"
>
> Are you exporting this directory?
>
>> tftp-server-name "192.168.1.21"
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>
Finally found the answer. I had originally installed a midi card in the
desktop concerned which used the 0x300 address, so I configured the network
card to be 0x310. Etherboot seems to default to 0x300 and as such was
unable to correctly operate (altho it seems strange that it was able to
send the broadcast to request the ip address in the first place). I have
now put the network card back to 0x300 and am getting further. Just need to
work out the format for the option-129 command to specify the 3c509 card.

rgds

gmcb