Think there's at least 2 parts to my dnsmasq problem. Got past the firstone. It was a permissions problem. Had to do a chmod o+rx /var/lib/cobbler which was owned by root, but dnsmasq was running as nobody and could not read /var/lib/cobbler/cobbler_hosts Don't know if the permission on /var/lib/cobbler was a default from the cobbler installation, or something I mucked up. Haven't gotten started on the second on. Peter Wright suggested that it looks like my vmlinuz/initrd.img don't support my virtual nic. He's probably right, I've got to figure out how to build the right vmlinz/initrd.img before I try again and we see if there's a third problem lurking behind these two. <div>On 8/9/07, Michael DeHaan <<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">drew einhorn wrote: > > > On 8/8/07, *Michael DeHaan* < <a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com</a>>> wrote: > > It's hard to tell for sure from what you've posted (lots of networking > things could be afoot), but what does your > /etc/cobbler/dnsmasq.template > look like? How about the generated /etc/dnsmasq.conf? Those are a > few things to start with. Since you didn't mention editing > /etc/cobbler/dnsmasq.conf it might not be correct for your > environment. > > There are some setup instructions including information at logging > here: > <a href="http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/setup.html"> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/setup.html</a> -- keep in mind > that cobbler will generate > it's own dnsmasq.conf based on the template, and the same for > /etc/ethers and /var/lib/cobbler/cobbler_hosts -- but that should give > you some idea of how it all works. > > <snip> > > --Michael > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > <a href="mailto:et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com">et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com">et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com</a>> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</a> > > > I've tried a few variations on /etc/cobbler/dnsmasq.template > Here's my latest: > > $cat /etc/cobbler/dnsmasq.template > # Cobbler generated configuration file for dnsmasq > # $date > # > > # resolve.conf .. ? > #no-poll > #enable-dbus > read-ethers > addn-hosts = /var/lib/cobbler/cobbler_hosts > > dhcp-range=<a href="http://10.0.0.128">10.0.0.128</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.128">http://10.0.0.128</a>>, <a href="http://10.0.0.254">10.0.0.254</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.254">http://10.0.0.254 </a>> > dhcp-option=3,$next_server > dhcp-lease-max=1000 > dhcp-authoritative > dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0 > dhcp-boot=net:normalarch,pxelinux.0 > dhcp-boot=net:ia64,$elilo > > $insert_cobbler_system_definitions > > And the resulting > > $cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf > > # Cobbler generated configuration file for dnsmasq > # Thu Aug 9 15:42:24 2007 > > # resolve.conf .. ? > #no-poll > #enable-dbus > read-ethers > addn-hosts = /var/lib/cobbler/cobbler_hosts > > dhcp-range= <a href="http://10.0.0.128">10.0.0.128</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.128">http://10.0.0.128</a>>, <a href="http://10.0.0.254">10.0.0.254</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.254">http://10.0.0.254</a>> > dhcp-option=3,<a href="http://10.0.0.21">10.0.0.21</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.21">http://10.0.0.21</a>> > dhcp-lease-max=1000 > dhcp-authoritative > dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0 > dhcp-boot=net:normalarch, pxelinux.0 > dhcp-boot=net:ia64,elilo-3.6-ia64.efi > > and > $ cat /etc/ethers > 00:50:56:00:00:FF <a href="http://10.0.0.66">10.0.0.66</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.66">http://10.0.0.66</a>> > > and > $ cat /var/lib/cobbler/cobbler_hosts > <a href="http://10.0.0.66"> 10.0.0.66</a> <<a href="http://10.0.0.66">http://10.0.0.66</a>> ctl01.sms > > Still pxeboot complains: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received. > > -- > Drew Einhorn > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > <a href="mailto:et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com">et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</a> Individual networking issues are beyond my ability to debug over email, and probably the scope of this list. You might want to see if you get the same problem with ISC and whether you get DHCP offers for your VMware guests when using your existing DHCP config. If any of those remove the problem, you have a dnsmasq config problem -- otherwise, it might be something else. I would think VMware would PXE just like anything else, but I have no idea what all the pieces to the puzzle are. Sorry I can't be of any more help. --Michael _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list <a href="mailto:et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com"> et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</a> </blockquote></div> -- Drew Einhorn