TFTP booting problem

[Paul English]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Henning Glawe wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:50:47PM -0800, Paul English wrote:
> > I have installed tftpd-hpa as well as all of the FAI packages recommended 
> > in Section 2.3 of the manual and there is a line for it inetd.conf and 
> > inetd is running and tcp based inetd services respond when I telnet to 
> > their ports. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> what do the server's logfiles tell ? especially if you switch the tftpd into
> verbose mode (append -v to the inetd.conf line to increase verbosity).

Without -v previously, daemon.log reported: 

Dec  6 11:19:04 cerberos inetd[181]: ftp/udp: unknown service

at approximately the time of attempt. However, this is tftp not ftp, so 
I'm not sure what that is about. 

It does not happen again with the -v option, in fact nothing appears in 
the logs with -v. This makes me think that tftp may not be getting 
started. 

> Some ideas:
> - is your client allowed to access the tftpd ?

It appears (according to in.tftpd -V) that tftpd was built with tcp 
wrappers support. The hosts.allow and deny were empty, so I just added 
ALL: ALL to hosts.allow. 

> - do the tftpd version, inetd.conf and dhcpd.conf match ?

/usr/sbin/in.tftpd -V
tftp-hpa 0.28, with remap, with tcpwrappers

inetd.conf:
#tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /var/ftpd
ftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -v -s /boot/fai

Below is dhcpd.conf. I basically took the fai example and modified it for 
my network:

# dhcpd.conf for fai
# replace FAISERVER with the name of your install server

# dhcp3 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.2 can't use user options (option-17X). This is
# a known bug in dhclient. Use fai-chboot(8) instead when using PXE.
# With fai-chboot(8) you can define all kernel parameters

# deny unknown-clients;
option dhcp-max-message-size 2048; 
use-host-decl-names on;
#always-reply-rfc1048 on;

filename "pxelinux.0";

# the server from which to load the initial boot file if different
# from server-name (if the DHCP server is not also the TFTP server)
#next-server faiserver;

#option option-170 "faiserver:/usr/local/share/fai";  # FAI_LOCATION
#option option-171 "sysinfo";                        # FAI_ACTION
#option option-172 "verbose,createvt,sshd";          # FAI_FLAGS

subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        range 10.10.10.1 10.10.10.250;
        option routers 10.10.10.100;
        option domain-name "3tiergroup.com";
}

subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
   range 10.0.1.1 10.0.1.250;
   option routers 10.10.10.100;
   option domain-name "3tiergroup.com";
   option domain-name-servers 10.10.10.22;
   option time-servers faiserver;
   option ntp-servers faiserver;
   server-name "faiserver";
   option root-path 
"/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,acregmin=1800,ac
regmax=1800,acdirmin=1800,acdirmax=1800";
}

# perl -ane ' {print "host atom {hardware ethernet $1;fixed-address 
atom}";}'
#host demohost {hardware ethernet 0:2:a3:b5:c5:41;fixed-address demohost;}
# Using the format above
host mercury2 {hardware ethernet 00:30:48:51:C4:D7;fixed-address 
mercury2;}