dyhcpd replaced with dnsmasq - but users not authenticating

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Sergio Dicandia wrote:

> I've replaced dhcpd with dnsmasq, I set dnsmasq.conf file up and now thin
> clients are receiving the proper IP address and booting from server.

Great.  Could you post your dnsmasq config so we can record how this is
done?

> The problem now is I try to login, the system waits for 30 seconds and
> thenI get the message:
> 
> "No response from server. Restarting."
> Then the screen goes blank, displaying only the arrow cursor. Nothing elsehappens.
> I feel I'm near the solution, but I can't understand why it's not authenticating the users.

That's curious.  Could you run tcpdump on the server something like
	tcpdump -i eth0 host w.x.y.z and tcp port 22

to see does the client successfully make an ssh connection to the server?
Put the client's ip address in place of w.x.y.z obviously.

Gavin