TFTP Timeout

[malk at sidehack.sat.gweep.net]

Are you using a TFTP server that supports TSIZE ?? This assumes you're using
pxelinux from H. Peter Anvin's syslinux project.

Stock debian TFTP server doesn't support TSIZE (sarge anyway).

Grab tftp-hpa from http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp

and build and install it -- in my situation I needed to modify
/etc/inetd.conf so tftpd would get run as root instead of nobody --
no worries as tftp-hpa takes care of ditching root capabilities when
appropriate but it initially needs to run as root when forked from inetd.

You can confirm you have TSIZE issues by looking at /var/log/daemon.log
and you'll see tftpd complaining about not supporting TSIZE when pxe 
tries to grab the kernel.

Best of luck,

-Eric Malkowski


> Guys,
> configured FAI (I presume correct but anyway..) i receivede this message 
> from my fai-clients
> PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
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