diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml
index 6a03d4929b..42e50e09d4 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml
@@ -4098,36 +4098,23 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds
diskless operation
- PXE requires a TFTP
- and a DHCP server to be set up. The
+ The
DHCP server does not need to be the same
- machine as the TFTP server, but it needs
+ machine as the TFTP and NFS server, but it needs
to be accessible in the network.
- The ISC DHCP server can
- answer both BOOTP and
- DHCP requests.
-
- ISC DHCP is not part of the
- base system. Install the
+ DHCP is not part of the &os;
+ base system but can be installed using the
net/isc-dhcp42-server port or
- package, following the instructions documented at . Make sure that
- /etc/rc.conf and
- /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf are
- correctly configured..
+ package.
- Once ISC DHCP is installed,
- edit its configuration file,
+ Once installed,
+ edit the configuration file,
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf. Configure
the next-server,
filename, and
- option root-path settings to specify
- the TFTP server IP
- address, the path to /boot/pxeboot
- in TFTP, and the path to the
- NFS root file system. Here is a sample
- dhcpd.conf setup:
+ root-path settings as seen in this
+ example:
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 ;
@@ -4138,14 +4125,13 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds
option domain-name "example.com";
# IP address of TFTP server
- next-server 192.168.0.1 ;
+ next-server 192.168.0.1 ;
- # path of boot loader obtained
- # via tftp
- filename "FreeBSD/install/boot/pxeboot" ;
+ # path of boot loader obtained via tftp
+ filename "FreeBSD/install/boot/pxeboot" ;
# pxeboot boot loader will try to NFS mount this directory for root FS
- option root-path "192.168.0.1:/b/tftpboot/FreeBSD/install/" ;
+ option root-path "192.168.0.1:/b/tftpboot/FreeBSD/install/" ;
}
@@ -4160,37 +4146,29 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds
inside the host declarations.
-->
- The next-server directive
- designates the TFTP or
- NFS server to use for loading
- &man.loader.8; or the kernel file. The default is to
- use the same host as the DHCP
+ The next-server directive is used
+ to specify the IP address of the
+ TFTP
server.
The filename directive defines
- the file that PXE will load for the
- next execution step. It must be specified according
- to the transfer method used.
- PXE uses TFTP,
- which is why a relative filename is used here. Also,
- PXE loads
- pxeboot, not the kernel. There are
- other interesting possibilities, like loading
- pxeboot from a &os; CD-ROM
- /boot directory.
- Since &man.pxeboot.8; can load a
- GENERIC kernel, it is possible to
- use PXE to boot from a remote
- CD-ROM.
+ the path to /boot/pxeboot. A
+ relative filename is used, meaning that
+ /b/tftpboot is not included in the
+ path.
The root-path option defines
- the path to the root file system, in usual
- NFS notation. When using
- PXE, it is possible to leave off the
- host's IP address as long as the
- BOOTP kernel option is not enabled.
- The NFS server will then be the
- same as the TFTP one.
+ the path to the NFS root file system.
+
+ Once the edits are saved, enable
+ NFS at boot time by adding the
+ following line to /etc/rc.conf:
+
+ dhcpd_enable="YES"
+
+ Then, start the DHCP service:
+
+ &prompt.root; service isc-dhcpd start