Hi,

If you disable 3Com PXE and TFTP services, would DHCP start correctly upon reboot?

Krish

no, the service still doesnt start automaticly.  if i go manually turn on the DHCP service it starts, and if i start the PXE services they all work properly until reboot.  the only thing that made DHCP start properly was completely uninstalling the 3com boot services.

Again, the system specks:
Dell Servers, poweredge 860 & poweredge 2950
2003 Server R2
providing DHCP and print services
mcafee antivirus

The really arent doing much, i dont see what the problem could be

Message Edited by Kurbycar32 on 02-28-2008 07:56 AM

Bumpage..

Hi,

I can't think of any reason why this should happen, I will try if I can re-produce this.

When installing 3Com PXE in the server, did you install it before or after making it a DHCP? Did 3Com PXE added the option 60 or did you have to do it manually?

In the mean time, you can try making the PXE server a dependency service of DHCP as a workaround. This will make sure it is started after DHCP.

Krish

3com services were installed after the machine was an existing DHCP & print server.  DHCP option 60 was set automaticly by the software. 

Ill try setting it as a dependancy of DHCP.

As a "work around" that actually works much better for me i relocated the PXE service on the ghost server.  By entering the IP address of the ghost/PXE server into the value of option 60 on the DHCP server i effectivly relayed all PXE traffic to the seperate server.  This works out better because we have multiple DHCP servers, enabling option 60 on all of them would centralize PXE.