[K12OSN] clients not getting TFTP

Gavin Chester sales at ecosolutions.com.au
Thu Jun 1 10:52:25 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:12 +0200, Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006, Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> > Setup:
> > New install of 4.4.1 with Compaq Deskpro PII clients with PXE 2.0 (BIOS
> > updated)
> > 
> > I had one of these clients booting before after it had BIOS update.  Not
> > sure what has happened to change that but now that client and others
> > won't start, they report TFTP open timeout.
> > 
> > Any pointers as to where to look for this TFTP problem?  Thanks.
> 
> tftpd has a -v option, which you can supply more than once.
> 
> For debian-flavored distros, you would add this to /etc/inetd.
> 
> For Redhattish distros, put it in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp.
> 
> Then check system logs (/var/log/messages perhaps, or daemon.log)
> for error messages.
> 
> Cheers,    Andy!

Thanks, Andy I'll give that a try, see what it can tell me and report
back :-)

Gavin




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