PXE service stops immediately
 

Hi,

I am running pxe on a linux 3.0 machine which also has DHCP running on it.

The pxe service was working fine, but right now I am getting the following message:

root> service pxe status

gives the following message:

pxe dead but pid file exists

The logs show there is a UDP error and a winsock error on port 67 (the dhcp port).

If i start the pxe service without the DHCP service running, there is no issue.

Anybody know how to solve this?

Regards,
Rammya

If both PXE and DHCP use UDP port 67, then only one of them can be running at a time (bound to the port).

Hi,

PXE shouldnt start its dhcp server if it detects that a dhcp server is already running in the network. My assumption is pxe is somehow not detecting the dhcp server which is already running. So its starting its own dhcp server.

I am using syslinux for pxe.

Regards,
Rammya

Is it documented that PXE should not do that? (I've never worked with PXE before)