netboot no longer working after Snow Leopard Upgrade

[Simple1]

So I updated my 10.5.8 server to 10.6 recently, everything looks to be just dandy except that my netboot server no longer work.

I’ve used apple’s trouble shooting guide and as well as bombich’s, but still to no avail, I’ve checked the bootpd file, I even went as far as editing the nfs.conf file from macosxhints (link below)

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100203124656707

below is a recent log:

Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: server name 120msodxx.xxx.xxxx
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: interface en0: ip 10.5.0.57 mask 255.255.252.0
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: dhcp: re-reading lease list
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: bsdpd: re-reading configuration
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: bsdpd: shadow file size will be set to 48 megabytes
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: bsdpd: age time 00:15:00
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000012 seconds
Aug 30 16:06:41 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000002 seconds
Aug 30 16:09:16 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000028 seconds
Aug 30 16:09:16 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000007 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:08 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000009 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:08 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000002 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:08 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000014 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:08 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000007 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:39 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000019 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:39 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000008 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: BSDP DISCOVER [en0] 1,c4:2c:3:8:46:c6 NetBoot006 arch=i386 sysid=Macmini4,1
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: replyfile /private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/SL_FullSuite.nbi/i386/booter
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: reply giaddr 10.5.12.3
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: BSDP OFFER sent [1,c4:2c:3:8:46:c6] pktsize 372
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000777 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: BSDP DISCOVER [en0] 1,c4:2c:3:8:46:c6 NetBoot006 arch=i386 sysid=Macmini4,1
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: replyfile /private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/SL_FullSuite.nbi/i386/booter
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: reply giaddr 10.5.12.2
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: BSDP OFFER sent [1,c4:2c:3:8:46:c6] pktsize 372
Aug 30 16:11:58 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000399 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:59 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000018 seconds
Aug 30 16:11:59 120msod01 bootpd[1010]: service time 0.000007 seconds

I wasn’t getting this far (/tftpboot line) until I turned on the firewall to allow port 69 traffic but it seems that the service hangs when the client machine is supposed recevie the payload of the diskimage through nfs (thus me editing nfs.conf file).

I don’t know how a perfect netboot service goes to $h*t after a clean install with no configuration changed. I’ve verfied that nothing with our dhcp service nor dns has been changed and also verified that the server name has been added to the ip_helper.

Any help is greatly apperciated.

[Simple1]

bump…anything? anyone?

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