Problems doing a ks over NFS

Philip Rowlands phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Mon Dec 19 15:20:42 UTC 2005


On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:

>> Are you sure the DHCP relay is working? What happens outside of a
>> kickstart install?
>
> Well I would think that since I see messages on the kickstart server
> FROM the dhcprelay server, that this would imply things are kinda sorta
> working, yes.

I'd suggest checking to make sure.

> As for NFS, yes I know that's working as I can do a 'same vlan' 
> kickstart over NFS and that works fine.

I'd suggest checking to make sure. In both cases you appear to have 
given reasons why things should be working through indirect evidence.

> I just keep seeing this on the dhcp/kickstart/repo server whenever I 
> attempt to do a box on another subnet:
>
> Dec 19 09:22:03 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:29:c9:55 via 192.168.20.58: unknown network segment
> Dec 19 09:22:05 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:29:c9:55 via 192.168.20.58: unknown network segment
> Dec 19 09:22:06 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.20.160 via eth1: unknown subnet 192.168.20.58

This is far from a complete DHCP exchange; the client is not receiving 
any "offer". Why the "unknown subnet" errors?


Cheers,
Phil




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