I'm trying to make some (temporary) use of an old machine. It has no disks of its own, but has a boot-capable network interface (Intel's LANDesk 0.99b).
I got it to obtain the IP-address and other options (including the TFTP-server) via DHCP.
However, when it tries actually download the specified file (pxeboot12), both sides complain of timeout. The server (FreeBSD-11.x) logs:
tftpd[16109]: Filename: 'pxeboot12'
tftpd[16109]: Mode: 'octet'
tftpd[16109]: receive_packet: timeout
and the client:
PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout.
There is no firewall in between the machines -- they plug into the same switch.
With tcpdump I can see the initial TFTP-request -- and the immediate response to it -- but nothing happens afterwards.
Using the tftp-client from another machine on the LAN, I was able to download the same boot-file in a fraction of a second.
What could be happening?
Update: based on this article, I disabled the MTU Discovery on the server (sysctl net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery=0) and also lowered the server's MTU to 700. Still noworky...
