[GLLUG] PXE Install

[Steve Nelson]

On 5/10/05, John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 07:49 +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> 
> > May 10 07:39:21 kotov in.tftpd[27054]: RRQ from 192.168.1.21 filename pxelinux.0
> > May 10 07:39:21 kotov in.tftpd[27054]: sending NAK (2, Only absolute
> > filenames allowed) to 192.168.1.21
> 
> Absolute filenames should be disallowed, as a security feature.
> You don't want tftp clients (remember no authorisation) rummaging around
> the filesystem tree, getting or worse putting files at random.
> As I said in an offline reply, you might have to use -s /tftpboot

Added -s to the inetd.conf entry - I can now get the file using the tftp client.

Tried the client machine... same symptoms.  Syslog says:

May 10 18:01:59 kotov dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:08:c7:f7:68:81 via eth0
May 10 18:02:00 kotov dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.21 to
00:08:c7:f7:68:81 via eth0
May 10 18:02:00 kotov dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.21 from
00:08:c7:f7:68:81 via eth0
May 10 18:02:00 kotov dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.21 to
00:08:c7:f7:68:81 via eth0
May 10 18:02:04 kotov in.tftpd[27123]: RRQ from 192.168.1.21 filename pxelinux.0
May 10 18:02:08 kotov in.tftpd[27124]: RRQ from 192.168.1.21 filename pxelinux.0
May 10 18:02:16 kotov in.tftpd[27125]: RRQ from 192.168.1.21 filename pxelinux.0
May 10 18:02:28 kotov in.tftpd[27126]: RRQ from 192.168.1.21 filename pxelinux.0
May 10 18:02:44 kotov in.tftpd[27128]: RRQ from 192.168.1.21 filename pxelinux.0

S.
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