How to configure TFTPD32 to ignore non PXE DHCP requests?

Posted by Ingmar Hupp on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ingmar Hupp
Published on 2011-11-14T16:00:14Z Indexed on 2011/11/14 17:54 UTC
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I want to give our Windows guy a way of easily PXE booting machines for deployment by plugging his laptop into one of our site networks. I've set up a TFTPD32 configuration which does just that, and our normal DHCP server ignores the PXE DHCP requests due to them having some magic flag, so this part works as desired. However I'm not sure how to configure TFTPD32 to only respond to PXE DHCP requests (the ones with the magic flag) and ignore all normal DHCP requests (so that the production machines don't get a non-routed address from the PXE server).

How do I configured TFTPD32 to ignore these non-PXE DHCP requests?

Or if it can't, is there another equally easy to use piece of software that he can run on his Windows laptop? Since the TFTPD part is working fine, a DHCP server with the ability to serve PXE only would do.

Worst case I'll have to set up a virtual machine with all this, but I'd much prefer a small, simple solution. I'm not interested in solutions that involve using the existing DHCP servers or separating machines on the network for deployment, the whole point is to be simple and stand-alone.

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