Operation Manual

7
Select filename and enter pxelinux.0 as the value.
8
Add another option (next-server) and set its value to the address of the TFTP
server.
9
Select OK and Finish to complete the DHCP server conguration.
To congure DHCP to provide a static IP address to a specic host, enter the Expert
Settings of the DHCP server conguration module (Step 4 (page 22)) and add a new
declaration of the host type. Add the options hardware and fixed-address to
this host declaration and provide the appropriate values.
Setting Up a DHCP Server Manually
All the DHCP server needs to do, apart from providing automatic address allocation to
your network clients, is to announce the IP address of the TFTP server and the le that
needs to be pulled in by the installation routines on the target machine.
1
Log in as root to the machine hosting the DHCP server.
2
Append the following lines to a subnet conguration of your DHCP server's
conguration le located under /etc/dhcpd.conf:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.228;
# PXE related stuff
#
# "next-server" defines the tftp server that will be used
next-server ip_tftp_server:
#
# "filename" specifies the pxelinux image on the tftp server
# the server runs in chroot under /srv/tftpboot
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
Replace ip_of_the_tftp_server with the actual IP address of the TFTP
server. For more information about the options available in dhcpd.conf, refer
to the dhcpd.conf manual page.
3
Restart the DHCP server by executing rcdhcpd restart.
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