[mythtv-users] Diskless

Peter Bowyer peter at bowyer.org
Tue Jan 30 21:48:05 UTC 2007


On 30/01/07, casey dunn <casey.dunn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried this not too long ago but ran into some trouble and couldn't
> find an answer in google.
>
> I use DD-WRT on my router for dhcp.
>
>   How do I forward the pxe requests to the machine hosting the tftp service?
>   How can I trouble shoot problems acquiring an image? I don't know
> if my trouble was the tftp server or the router.

Generically, the DHCP server needs to include a 'next-server' value as
part of the DHCP response - this tells the client the IP of the tftp
server. I don't know how you do this with DD-WRT or even if you can.
Simple router-based DHCP servers typically don't have the ability to
set custom values like this.

I turned off the DHCP support in my DSL router and installed dhcpd on
the same server as the tftp and Myth backend. It takes a few minutes
to configure, then you forget it....

As for troubleshooting - your tftp server should be logging somewhere
- /var/log/messages perhaps.... if you're seeing nothing there then
you're probably not getting that far. Try a tftp request from the
shell prompt to 'localhost' and see if anything gets logged.

Peter

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