F9 tftp broken?!

Christian Schuermann huor.carnesir at arcor.de
Fri May 30 19:26:05 UTC 2008


Hi there,

I just upgraded from F8 but unfortunately I can't convince tftp to do 
what it is supposed to do.
My dhcpd is configured with the next-server option pointing to my new F9 
tftp-server. Just like this:

    # cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
    [...]
    next-server 192.168.178.15;
    filename "pxelinux.0";
    [...]

When I try to pxeboot one of my clients it gets an ip address from the 
dhcp-server but fails to fetch the pxelinux.0 file. After a few seconds 
it runs into a timeout

    PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout

On the tftp machine everything seems fine

    # netstat -an | grep :69
    udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69                  0.0.0.0:*

except one little thing: On my old F8 tftp machine a process called 
in.tftp was created whenever as soon as the first client connected

    $ ps -e | grep in.tftp
    28827 ?        00:00:00 in.tftpd

That one is missing on the new F9 machine.

There are a few things in bugzilla concerning tftp but nothing that 
really helps me here. I recently upgraded to tftp-server-0.48-6.fc9.i386 
but this didn't help either.

Any ideas? Should I bugzilla?

Regards, Chris




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