PXE service stops immediately

rammya · 07-12-2005, 05:16 AM

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

Matir · 07-12-2005, 10:05 PM

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

rammya · 07-12-2005, 10:59 PM

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

Matir · 07-12-2005, 11:08 PM

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