On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:29:49PM -0700, Frank wrote:
I did a sniff at the Cobbler server for the server that I want to
install CentOS on. Here the output (actual MAC address and IP are
changed):
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[root@cobbler ~]# tcpdump -ni eth1 ether host 00:1C:C4:K2:0E:31
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
[ ... from here what shows after reboot, while server searches for DHCP ...]
04:15:20.580237 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:
BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:1c:c4:k2:0b:31, length 548
So the requests arrive at the cobbler-server.
Investigate now
- if dhcpd is listening on same interface
- if yes, what it thinks about these requests, if it gets them
why it doesnt do actions.
Configfile /etc/dhcpd.conf and dhcpd manpage help you doing this.
I am not able to interpret that ... only that "IP 0.0.0.0"
does not
really look very promissing.
Looks good, but actions from your dhcpd should follow.
Christian