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<div>Hi,</div><div>in order to make PXE possible with older notebooks, I've compiled for myself Netboot.</div><div>This is a piece of software, which starts from floppy, where you can load your dos paket driver and start PXE.</div><div>Basically, it makes possible to boot with PXE by using PCMCIA networks cards from floppy, when nothing else is possible to boot from.</div><div><br /></div><div>Netboot itself is working so far fine, it initializes itself fine, loads my dos packet driver and starts DHCP.</div><div>I can clearly see, that a DHCP broadcast comes into my DNSMasq, which replies with a DHCP offer.</div><div>And here it stops. It seems, Netboot can't correctly handle that offer by DNSMasq, as it silently drops it and tries again.</div><div>So I see multiple broadcast searches and DHCP offers.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>BUT: If I use DHCP from an ordinary AVM Fritz!Box 7490 (Router), Netboot succeeds and can handle the reply from it.</div><div>So the question is, what could go wrong? Can I debug this somehow? Any solutions to make this possible work with Netboot?</div><div><br /></div><div>Note: Netboot is pretty old, latest release is from 2007. I suspect, that maybe DNSMasq does some RFC correct, which is "too new" for those old clients.</div><div>Any help would be appreciated.</div><div><br /></div><div id="signature_old">Conrad</div></body></html>