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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2012 11:08:04 +0200
From:      pacija <pacija@gmail.com>
To:        Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Subject:   Re: pxe + nfs + microsoft dhcp
Message-ID:  <1338282484.1278.6.camel@vault.mimar.rs>
In-Reply-To: <E1SZGH7-000Pza-3o@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <1559609187.982427.1338244921382.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <E1SZGH7-000Pza-3o@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>

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> > pacija wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Dear list readers,
> > > 
> > > I am having a problem with pxe loader on FreeBSD 9.0 i386 release. No
> > > matter what value I put for DHCP option 017 (Root Path) in Microsoft
> > > DHCP server, pxe always sets root path:
> > > pxe_open: server path: /
> > > 
> > > I've read src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/pxe.c as instructed in handbook,
> > > and
> > > i learned there that root path is a failover value which gets set if
> > > no
> > > valid value is supplied by DHCP server. At first i thought that
> > > Microsoft DHCP does not send it but i confirmed with windump it does:
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 15:46:49.505748 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 6066, offset 0, flags [none],
> > > proto: UDP
> > > (17), length: 392) dhcp.domain.tld.67 > 255.255.255.255.68: [bad udp
> > > cksum 4537!]
> > > BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length 364, xid 0xdcdb5309, Flags [ none ] (0x0000)
> > > Your-IP 192.168.218.32
> > > Server-IP dhcp.domain.tld
> > > Client-Ethernet-Address 00:19:db:db:53:09 (oui Unknown)
> > > file "FreeBSD/install/boot/pxeboot"
> > > Vendor-rfc1048 Extensions
> > > Magic Cookie 0x63825363
> > > DHCP-Message Option 53, length 1: Offer
> > > Subnet-Mask Option 1, length 4: 255.255.255.0
> > > RN Option 58, length 4: 345600
> > > RB Option 59, length 4: 604800
> > > Lease-Time Option 51, length 4: 691200
> > > Server-ID Option 54, length 4: dhcp.domain.tld
> > > Default-Gateway Option 3, length 4: gate.domain.tld
> > > Domain-Name-Server Option 6, length 4: dhcp.domain.tld
> > > Domain-Name Option 15, length 1: "^@"
> > > RP Option 17, length 42:
> > > "192.168.218.32:/b/tftpboot/FreeBSD/install/^@"
> > > BF Option 67, length 29: "FreeBSD/install/boot/pxeboot^@"
> > What about getting rid of the "^@" characters at the end of
> > the strings?
> 
> the ^@ seems to have been added by windump, but check this out:
> the length of the  root-path
> 	192.168.218.32:/b/tftpboot/FreeBSD/install/
> is 43!, not 42 as shown, and the ^@ (NULL) is the 44th!
> on the other hand, 
> 	FreeBSD/install/boot/pxeboot
> is 28! 
> 
> can you make available the raw data (cab) of the entire transaction, including
> the request for the boot files?
> 
> danny
> 
> 

Hi Danny,

thank you for looking into it.

I did the dump catching ip broadcasts (attached file), hope that is the
correct one:

windump -nvvv -s 0 -w pxedump.cab ip broadcast

I would like to try to get rid of "^@" characters but i am going to need
instruction what exactly do in need to do in order to accomplish it.

Regards,

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