[K12OSN] DPORT-1067 is being ignored -- SOLVED

[Rob Owens]

Removing the quotes did it.  Thank you all very much. 
DHCP is now working on port 1067.

-Rob

--- Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> Are you using Etherboot or PXE ?
> 
> Those options are correct for Etherboot, but they
> won't work with PXE.
> 
> Also, the value for option-128 should NOT be
> surrounded by quotes.
> 
> It should just be:
> 
>     option option-128  e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> 
> 
> I don't know if it would cause a problem to have
> quotes.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rob Owens wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get dhcp running on port 1067.  This
> is
> > on my home system running Mandrake with ltsp on
> top.
> > Here are the pertinent lines from my dhcpd.conf
> file:
> >
> > option option-128 code 128 = string;
> > option option-129 code 129 = text;
> > option option-128 "e4:45:74:68:00:00";
> > option option-129 "DPORT=1067";
> >
> > I've tried placing them in different sections of
> that
> > file, but currently they're in the top section,
> which
> > I believe are the global settings.
> >
> > In Mandrake, I have to edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd
> in
> > order to tell dhcpd to run on port 1067.  I've
> done
> > that.
> >
> > When the client attempts to boot, it gets a kernel
> (I
> > think that's what it's doing) but it gets stuck
> later
> > on and tells me that it's searching for a dhcp
> server
> > on port 67.  Seems like option 128 and 129 have
> not
> > successfully been passed to the kernel.
> >
> > So I revert back to port 67 by editing
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd, but I forgot to comment
> out
> > the above lines from lts.conf.  What do you know,
> the
> > client boots fine (on port 67).  So again, it
> seems
> > like option 128 and 129 are not being passed to
> the
> > kernel.
> >
> > What have I done wrong?  I'm out of ideas.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >
> >
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