Thanks, that helps a lot. I guess the part I was missing before was the
multi-step DHCP requested. I assumed a DHCP client would get one and
only reply from one server.
Cheers :)
James
Vaikar Amol wrote:
> Hi,
>
> AFAIK, when one installs BMR BOOT Server on windows and configures the
> PXE service using the BMR-Boot Server Assistant, a ProxyDHCP service
> and a TFTP service gets configured on the Boot server.
>
> After that, I believe this is the way it works:
> 1. DHCP discover is broadcasted from client, asking for IP address and
> PXE boot server.
> 2. DHCP offer from DHCP server, offers IP address and other network
> configuration settings. In your case, the Linux based DHCP server is
> doing this.
> 3. DHCP offer from the ProxyDHCP server running on your windows boot
> server, *offers* PXE boot server address.
> 4. DHCP request from client to DHCP server, requesting IP address.
> 5. DHCP acknowledge message from DHCP server.
> 6. DHCP request from client to the ProxyDHCP server server, requesting
> the boot server address.
> 7. DHCP acknowledge message from ProxyDHCP server. This acknowledgment
> contains the address to the Boot Server (which would be the address of
> itself) and the first file that the client needs to send a TFTP
> request for so as to start the boot process.
> 8. Client sends the TFTP request to the Boot server and gets the first
> file for booting.
>
> Does this answer your question?
>
> For more details, you could take a look at:
> http://download.intel.com/design/archives/wfm/downloads/pxespec.pdf
>
> HTH,
> Amol.
>
>
> */James Pattinson <jamesp AT hisser DOT org>/* wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> Been playing with BMR on Solaris & Windows, and both seem to work
> impressively well.
>
> My issue is with the PXE booting on the Windows side - it works,
> but I
> have no idea how it's working. I have a UNIX DHCP server on my
> network,
> that's handing out IP addresses, but not TFTP server information.
>
> How is my newly-booted client getting the address of the TFTP server?
>
> I am trying to understand this to be able to turn around to my
> customer
> and tell that what the procedure will be in *their* network.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
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