TFTP Errors

[Arunvijai.S]

Hello all,

I am trying to install 11.23 Golden image via Ignite server. On the server, i get the following messages in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

May 28 13:58:49 chola tftpd[10924]: send_file: recv: Can't assign requested address
May 28 13:58:49 chola tftpd[10928]: send_file: recv: Can't assign requested address
May 28 13:58:52 chola tftpd[10929]: send_file: recv: Can't assign requested address
May 28 13:59:03 chola tftpd[10933]: send_file: recv: Can't assign requested address
May 28 13:59:09 chola tftpd[10937]: send_file: recv: Can't assign requested address

I am just wondering what went wrong. Can some one help me?

[Tapas Jha]

Hi,

Can you check on /etc/exports files entry as well as /etc/hosts entry. do exportfs -a
and exportfs.
And run again.

Rgds
Tapas

[Ralf Seefeldt]

Hi,

did you enter the new Sever to your ignite Servers /etc/bootbtab like this:
ipname:\
ba:\
hn:\
ht=ether:\
ha=00306E43456E:ip=10.1.1.5:sm=255.255.0.0:\
gw=10.1.1.1:\
vm=rfc1048:\
bf=/opt/ignite/boot/boot_lif:\
ds=10.1.1.100 10.1.1.200:\
dn=yourdomain.com

And make sure, that there is no router between the 2 computers (If I m not wrong, it wil not work with routers in between)

I hope this helps.

Bye
Ralf

[Dani Seely]

Are you using DNS or hosts?

It sounds like the error message is a complaint about the target address/machine. It's possible that your problem is that your name resolution is messed up.

Try using name resolution and do an nslookup, and try other connections to this system (ftp, telnet, ssh). Post your results for us to review.

[Arunvijai.S]

Hello All,

Thanks for your messages. I checked the following files and daemons,

NFS, /etc/exports, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts

All the entries are perfect. In fact client can download the mini system to boot. While it tries to download golden image archive, tftpd complains "tftpd[2451]: send_file: recv: Can't assign requested address"

This is my /etc/bootptab file,

pallava:\
ba:\
hn:\
ht=ether:\
ha=00306E39C780:\
ip=172.16.1.178:\
bf=/opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi:\
sm=255.255.255.0:\
gw=172.16.1.10:\
ds=172.16.1.200:\
dn=kovaiteam.com

Please let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks,
Arun

[Catherine Forget]

Hi Arun, I have exactly the same problem. did you manage to fix it? Please let me know if you had it work. my email is cforget@csc.com
Thanks

[Steven Schwartz_1]

I can't help you, but I can add one piece of information that doesn't appear to have been discussed.

It's not a subnet issue. I've had machines in different subnets generate the problem, but it also occurs with machines within the same subnet.