Re: Remote Boot

From: John Polstra (jdp_at_polstra.com)
Date: 10/23/03

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    Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
    To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
    
    

    On 22-Oct-2003 Greg Black wrote:
    > On 2003-10-20, Tobias P. Santos wrote:
    >
    >> I am trying to boot a FreeBSD diskless client with no success.
    >> Actually, I can boot the client, the kernel is downloaded and begins
    >> to boot. Then it tries to reach the DHCP/BOOT server, but this never
    >> occurs and the machine repeats the following messages forever:
    >
    > There is a nasty bug in most versions of the ISC DHCP code that
    > gave me a nasty time when attempting just this recently.
    >
    > Upgrading to the current DHCP code is essential.

    Upgrade which? The DHCP client, or the DHCP server?

    John
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