Re: no kickstart ?

[Eric Hagberg morganstanley com]

I've also reported a problem where DHCP fails during install (it uses
pump) but works just fine when the server boots into the installed copy of
RHEL3 (which uses dhclient).

>From snooping, it appears to be due to the TTL on pump's discovery packets
being set to 0, while dhclient has it set to something like 16. Unless
your dhcp server is on the same network and you don't need your dhcp
requests forwarded by your routers, the installer will fail, as packets w/
TTL=0 are discarded at the first router they hit.

I've opened an issue on this, but it doesn't look like it's getting fixed
soon.

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Matt Domsch wrote:

> > I'll give this a shot in the morning, but it's not even downloading the
> > kickstart as it doesn't get a DHCP address, as shown by tty5 (no
> > response from DHCP server).
>
> What's your DHCP server?  Our lab uses the Red Hat-provided DHCP server,
> and it works fine.  When I've tried against a Windows 2000 DHCP server, it
> fails to obtain an address (no response from the DHCP server crosses the
> wire).