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... > > Thanks, > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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