Jerry Geis wrote:
Hi all,
I have setup tftp on centos 4 before an it worked.
I am not setting up tftp on centos 5. I have added many -v -v -v -v to the tftp config file. /var/log/messages shows me connection from the IP address - but no errors. My client eventually times out as the file is not being provided.
It works by the way on localhost, just not from a client. selinux is turned off.
I iptables turned off. tftp is running and my files are in /tftpboot everything is read accesss.
I did the yum install tftp-server as normal.
Nothing is in my hosts.allow and hosts.deny
why might my client be timing out...
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It sounds like /var/log/messages indicates DHCP success, but you still might not have TFTP set up correctly ... possibly a wrong next-server address in the DHCP configuration file? Is /tftpboot structured correctly? Is tftp enabled for xinetd.d (it's usually off by default)? There are lots of things that could be going on.
Something like Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/)* might help you with netboot setup if you aren't sure exactly what is up, and at least covers 90% of those kinds of setup problems. Getting the IP addresses right/DHCP, etc, is still up to you ... but it helps some with that.
* = disclaimer: wrote it
--Michael