DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: PXE booting DSL

Ooops, what is this 3com thing doing in the server?

First, disable or disconnect the 3com thing. I assume this wireless adapter is associated to an access point, the accesspoint has a cat5 connection to the etherbootable clien, right?

In this case, first disable dhcp on the wireless interface. Just statically assign the values from the screenshot for IP address, netmask and gateway, the configure TFTPD32 the following way:

server interface: 192.168.123.198
ip pool starting address: 192.168.123.220
size of pool: 10
boot file: etherboot.nbi
WINS/DNS: 192.168.123.254
Default Router: 192.168.123.254
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Domain Name: dsl.test

You might want to take care that the addresses 192.168.123.220 to 192.168.123.229 are not assigned by your Gatway/Router box. These boxes usually can be configured to assign a range from maybe 192.168.123.100 up to 192.168.123.200.

Then create a floppy that fits the clients network card and have fun!

Regards,
Mattias

Sorry, I probably should have explained this better.

I have an XP computer (using as boot server), It has two network cards -a wireless (that the internet comes off allong with the rest of the houses networked computers) and an ethernet (this is the 3Com 3C905tx in the screenshot). From the ethernet it connects to an 8port switch that my client computer comes off. The client computer has the "3Com Etherlink III" network card.

OK, i hope that was coherrent...

I had been trying previously to run a headless server as a hardend firewall (from some old computer) that would act as an internet gateway for my 8-port so that I would only require one network card in my XP machine, because as i said previously XP ocationally has problems with having two cards (like it will ignore one of them, sometimes to the point it wont even recognise the hardware is installed...). But because the firewall programs i was using didnt like my wireless card i gave up.

hope you can straighten this out for me, thanks again for your help so far,

Oscar

Does you have the built-in "Windows Firewall" running or some third party software firewall installed on your Windows XP computer?

If so, you may need to configure your firewall to allow the tftp server application to be accessed by other PCs on the network.

If you insist on running the TFTPD on the wired interface, keep those parameters, they will work. Just change the interface to listen on to "192.168.1.81" (in the TFTPD32 configuration window). You might not be able to reach the internet from the TFTP booted DSL client (just the local net), but I think this is secondary.

Try this, and if booting works, we can fix the rest of the configuration.

Regards,
Matt

That is the configuration I was using (The wirless card allways comes up first for some reason when I startup tftpd and it happend to be up when i too the screenshot), My windows firewall is most definatly off on that connection. Sorry about the large silence from me, my primary hard drive just died...

Is there any way of me telling if its the client or the server incorrectly configured?

Can I boot off my wireless connection?, Wont I need drivers (DSL wont recognise it, but it should be a RT2500 (chipset) card, its branded "Cnet" -but its just imported - here http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/ is how to do it, but i havent tried as i would need a floppy specifically for the card i assume)

thanks for all your help again.

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