Re: [CentOS] tftp on centos 5

From: Michael DeHaan <mdehaan(at)redhat.com>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 17:23:29 EDT

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@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

---

CentOS mailing list
CentOS@centos.org
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Received on Wed Oct 31 17:24:10 2007