[GLLUG] PXE Install

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Tue May 10 09:20:46 UTC 2005


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

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