From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 13:04:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018C316A41F for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:04:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b.candler@pobox.com) Received: from orb.pobox.com (orb.pobox.com [207.8.226.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971D543D45 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b.candler@pobox.com) Received: from orb (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orb.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0CD90C; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:05:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from mappit.local.linnet.org (212-74-113-67.static.dsl.as9105.com [212.74.113.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by orb.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9835C87; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:05:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists by mappit.local.linnet.org with local (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1EaYaG-000IYt-3Y; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:04:48 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:04:48 +0000 From: Brian Candler To: Emre Bastuz Message-ID: <20051111130447.GA71280@uk.tiscali.com> References: <1131617524.43731cf41121f@netmail3.netcologne.de> <64191.217.144.68.71.1131625348.squirrel@sigma.interami.com> <1131627565.4373442d9f442@netmail2.netcologne.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1131627565.4373442d9f442@netmail2.netcologne.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Artyom Viklenko Subject: Re: Using PXE to install FreeBSD 6.0 - wrong kernel path and ip X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:04:53 -0000 On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:59:25PM +0100, Emre Bastuz wrote: > The main question is, why does it not accept what I´ve entered in the dhcpd.conf > ("option root-path "192.168.2.38:/usr/local/export/pxe") and takes "/pexroot" > instead? I think it's option filename not option root-path which is used to locate the pxeboot loader itself. Assuming you're following the instructions and sample configs at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/ you might also find this useful: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/016306.html I would certainly expect to see multiple DHCP exchanges taking place: (1) the pxe bootstrap loader DHCP's for an IP and some parameters (2) it fetches pxeboot using TFTP and runs it (3) pxeboot DHCP's for an IP and some parameters (4) pxeboot fetches the kernel using NFS (or TFTP, if you rebuild pxeboot with the options outlined in the link above) (5) the kernel boots (6) the kernel DHCP's for an IP and some parameters, if you've set it to mount the root partition over NFS As to why you're getting two different IP addresses taken on DHCP, I don't know. I see you are using both 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x. Do you have a subnet mask big enough to cover both ranges into a single block? Regards, Brian.