[ipxe-devel] Incorrect next-server (QIP + Microsoft RIS/WDS)

[Tim Wright]

Hi Michael,

Our IP Services team set the default next-server to 0.0.0.0 and these boxes have started working perfectly. 

Just wanted to say thanks a lot for all your help. We've been playing with booting gPXE for a while now, and it's undoubtedly going to change the way we boot systems (goodbye TFTP!). Best of luck with the project going forward...

Cheers,

Tim

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On 21 Jul 2010, at 13:32, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:

> On Monday 19 Jul 2010 18:04:18 Tim Wright wrote:
>>> The easiest fix (if you can do it) would be to stop the QIP server from
>>> handing out its apparently spurious next-server address.
>> 
>> I wasn't even aware that it did until I stumbled across this issue and
>> setup a sniffer. Looking through the ISC dhcpd configuration guide, the
>> next-server directive defaults to the IP address of the DHCP server itself
>> if not specified. I guess we could experiment with hard-coding the
>> next-server to 0.0.0.0 or something to see if gPXE ignores it? Any ideas
>> here?
> 
> Yes, setting it to 0.0.0.0 would cause it to be treated as "not present" and 
> should solve your problem.
> 
>> Lastly - excuse my ignorance but what's the difference between gPXE/iPXE?
> 
> iPXE is the not-quite-yet-public continuation of the gPXE project, following a 
> series of disagreements with the person who (unfortunately) owns the 
> etherboot.org and gpxe.org domains.  Sad but necessary.
> 
> Michael