DHCP option to allow PXE

[gaelfabrice]

HI, could someone help me ?
thi is my actual dhcp pool configuration i would to deploy WDS service in my lan

-------DHCP config
ip dhcp pool vlan10
network 192.16.3.0 255.255.255.0
domain-name feicom.cm
default-router 192.168.6.254
dns-server 192.16.0.90 192.16.0.93
lease 0 7

i would like to configure it so that PXE request works and client could boot from network

here below the changes i made



-------DHCP config
ip dhcp pool vlan10
network 192.16.3.0 255.255.255.0
domain-name feicom.cm
default-router 192.168.6.254
dns-server 192.16.0.90 192.16.0.93
lease 0 7
next-server 192.16.3.10

[Brandon Buffin]

Try adding options 60 (PXEClient), 66 (PXE server) and 67 (boot file) to the DHCP pool.

option 60 ascii "PXEClient"
option 66 ascii WDS-server.domainname.local
option 67 ascii Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com

[gaelfabrice]

hi sir @Brandon thx for your reply

please sir i still not understand the  purpose of  using  ascii argument  instead of others 

R1(dhcp-config)#option 60 ?
ascii Data is an NVT ASCII string
hex Data is a hexadecimal string
instance Specify the option instance
ip Data is one or more IP addresses

could you please  please  tell what they are for ? so that  i could  understand their objective and  know  what to choose and  why

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i also thinking of setting  option 67 like this

option 67 ascii smsboot\x86\wdsnbp.com smsboot\x64\wdsnbp.com

would  it affect my settings ? or cause any trouble ? as i will also deploy x86  OS

[Brandon Buffin]

The ascii argument simply indicates a text string. I don't believe you can include both x86 and x64 paths in the same option 67 command. You would need separate DHCP pools

[gaelfabrice]

thx i will  check if  PXE works  and  give you a feedback

and  its like  i can incluede both x86 and x64 

[gbenoit83]

Can you explain the option 67 ascii Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com string? Is this where the location of the boot file is? It would be specific to us. I have option 60 on the DHCP pool and going to add 66, is 67 needed?

[tdavis85]

I had this same issue and tried the options, but what fixed it for me was adding the next-server command on the DHCP pool instead of using the ip helper on the SVI.  Everything I've always read said to use the ip helper but how I was able to get it to work is to set the 
next-server (PXE server address and DP address)

option 60 ascii "PXEClient"

Adding those two commands to the DHCP scope fixed it for me.  I know this is an old thread but hopefully it helps others in the future.

[Sacky Iindombo]

I'm struggling to resolve this problem. 

I'm attempting to deploy PXE boot configurations through our MPLS routers. Only the PXE server is remotely. DHCP servers are local to each each site.

I tried ip helper address x.x.x.x and ip forward-protocol udp 4011 but never worked. Please assist