Re: Trying to set diskless(8) -- hanging in "RPC timeout for server"

2010-05-13 Thread Miod Vallat
> I'm trying to set up my server for diskless boots, as described > in the diskless(8) manpage (at the moment, more or less mostly as > an academic exercise, but I was planning to take my oldish > laptops to some use this way). [...] > I have already tried to have tcpdump have a look at what's go

Broadcast behavior in 4.7 [Was: Re: Trying to set diskless(8) -- hanging in "RPC timeout for server"]

2010-05-11 Thread Pascal Lalonde
I just happened to run into the same issue right after upgrading to 4.7 (however, you mention 4.6, so I'm uncertain we're dealing with the same cause). Basically, the issue I'm seeing is that portmap/rpc.bootparamd don't see the incoming packets for 172.16.255.255 (my own network being 172.16.5.0/

Re: Trying to set diskless(8) -- hanging in "RPC timeout for server"

2010-05-11 Thread Stefan Unterweger
* Fred Crowson on Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:43:09PM +0100: > What does your dhcpd.conf look like on your server? I have several subnets served via DHCP, so I have reported only the relevant one together with the global options: | server-name "Neu-Sorpigal"; | option domain-name "intranet.aleturo.co

Re: Trying to set diskless(8) -- hanging in "RPC timeout for server"

2010-05-11 Thread Fred Crowson
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Stefan Unterweger wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to set up my server for diskless boots, as described > in the diskless(8) manpage (at the moment, more or less mostly as > an academic exercise, but I was planning to take my oldish > laptops to some use this way).