I've been setting up a 4.4-RELEASE system for net booting and diskless operation with pxeboot, and I've run into a minor but annoying problem. It seems that if you boot with PXE you can't use dhclient. pxeboot configures the relevant network interface (let's call it fxp0), NFS-mounts the root filesystem, boots the kernel, etc., and begins to enter multi-user mode. The rc.network script then runs dhclient, which tries to configure fxp0 (again). It apparently starts out by unconfiguring fxp0's IP address, because NFS immediately hangs with a "host unreachable" error. At that point I have to walk over and press the reset button.
If I disable DHCP on fxp0 in /etc/rc.conf, the system boots fine and leaves me with a working, configured interface. But lots of other useful stuff that DHCP would give me is missing: e.g., the host name, the DNS server, and so forth. It would be nice if I could netboot the machine and then grab all that other information with DHCP. I'm aware that /etc/rc.diskless* allow me to put host-specific configuration files into /config/<IP-ADDR>/etc. But I'd much prefer to keep all that information together in the dhcpd.conf file. Any ideas on how to solve this problem? John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
