[Dnsmasq-discuss] seperate DHCP- and PXE-Server

Nikolay Kasatkin nikolay.kasatkin at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 20:56:28 GMT 2010


May be problem in PXE client that you use. Some proprietary boot ROMs
cant' work with proxy DHCP service. You can try gPXE
(http://rom-o-matic.net/).

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hallo, ????????,
>
> Du meintest am 27.03.10 zum Thema Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] seperate DHCP- and PXE-Server:
>
>
>>> how can I put the PXE server onto another machine than the DHCP
>>> server?
>>>
>>> I have 2 servers in my LAN, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.7
>
>> You can use "proxy DHCP" feature of Dnsmasq on the second machine and
>> DHCP-only on first machine. Second server will answer on PXE requests
>> only, first server will answer on DHCP requests only, both servers
>> simultaneously will act as PXE-server.
>
>> Meaningful parts of configs:
>> Proxy DHCP server:
>> ....
>> pxe-service=x86PC,"Network boot",pxelinux
>> dhcp-range=192.168.0.0,proxy
>> ....
>> DHCP-only server:
>> ....
>> dhcp-range=192.168.0.20,192.168.0.50,12h
>> ....
>
> Doesn't work - sorry.
> The system sees that the DHCP server makes no PXE, but it doesnt't lead
> the PXE request to the second machine.
>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
>
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