[K12OSN] DPORT-1067 is being ignored

[Jim McQuillan]

Rob,

Are you using Etherboot or PXE ?

Those options are correct for Etherboot, but they won't work with PXE.

Also, the value for option-128 should NOT be surrounded by quotes.

It should just be:

    option option-128  e4:45:74:68:00:00;


I don't know if it would cause a problem to have quotes.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rob Owens wrote:

> I'm trying to get dhcp running on port 1067.  This is
> on my home system running Mandrake with ltsp on top.
> Here are the pertinent lines from my dhcpd.conf file:
>
> option option-128 code 128 = string;
> option option-129 code 129 = text;
> option option-128 "e4:45:74:68:00:00";
> option option-129 "DPORT=1067";
>
> I've tried placing them in different sections of that
> file, but currently they're in the top section, which
> I believe are the global settings.
>
> In Mandrake, I have to edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd in
> order to tell dhcpd to run on port 1067.  I've done
> that.
>
> When the client attempts to boot, it gets a kernel (I
> think that's what it's doing) but it gets stuck later
> on and tells me that it's searching for a dhcp server
> on port 67.  Seems like option 128 and 129 have not
> successfully been passed to the kernel.
>
> So I revert back to port 67 by editing
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd, but I forgot to comment out
> the above lines from lts.conf.  What do you know, the
> client boots fine (on port 67).  So again, it seems
> like option 128 and 129 are not being passed to the
> kernel.
>
> What have I done wrong?  I'm out of ideas.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
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