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From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
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Subject: Re: Remote Boot
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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.