booting thin clients and firestarter

[DB Clinton]

On Feb 3, 2008 1:29 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> So, there are no firewall rules at all.  This suggest firestarter is not a
> problem at all.  Is it possible you installed firestarter which broke
> booting, then you tried various things to fix it, then removed firestarter
> which fixed your original problem, but now the "various things" are the
> problem?


That's certainly a possibility.

>
>
> Can you explain in detail exactly what happens when the boot fails?


Here's a recap (typed in by hand - there may be errors):
sis900_probe: MAC 00:2A:43:AE:30:94 at vendor 0X0400
sis900_probe: vendor :0X1039 Device 0X0900
sis900_probe: RTL 8201 10/100Mps Phyceiver transceiver found at address 1
sis900_probe: Using RTL 8201 as default
rtl8201_read_mode: Medialink on 100Mbs full duplex
searching for server (DHCP)...no IP adress [repeat until fed up]

>
>
> You refer to making changes in "etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf".  That's not the
> dhcp
> config file in LTSP systems.


I know. I remarked out (#) "authoritative" (along with every other line, for
that matter) which I assumed would force the system to read the ltsp
version. Curiously, webmin, under servers, only shows me the dhcp3 version -
remarks and all.

 It's /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf.  Can you check
> that that file is present on the system?  Could you check that it has
> lines
> something like this:

It's on the system. Here's the whole thing:
==============================

# Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.
#

authoritative;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250;
    option domain-name "example.com";
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
    option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
    option routers 192.168.0.1;
#    next-server 192.168.0.254;
#    get-lease-hostnames true;

    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

#    filename "/ltsp/pxelinux.0";  [alternative to if/else option below?]

    option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";

    if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {
        filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
    } else {
        filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img";
    }
}
==========================

>
> and make sure pxelinux.0, nbi.img exist in /opt/ltsp/i386/.



They were both in /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/. I copied them to /opt/ltsp/i386/ and
ran dhcp3-server restart but no change on the client boot.

>
>
> We'll figure it out, it'll just take a little close examination.


Thanks. I really do appreciate this!
David

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