[NCLUG] Question: Linux as a PXE Server

Steve Wolf stevewolf6 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 17:16:28 MDT 2009


> Does anyone have any ideas? I suspect the solution either
> involves telling DHCPD on Linux not to serve addresses but only respond to
> specially marked DHCP requests from PXE clients, but my guess is that DHCPD
> doesn’t support this sort of selective listening at all, or else it would
> have been documented. Is there maybe  another daemon out there that allows
> Linux to serve as a PXE server?

http://tinyurl.com/ddgojk might point you in the right direction.  You
can use DHCP Option 43 to tell the client where to look for the PXE
server.

Regards,
Steve



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