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Im trying to setup a PXE boot server to deploy CloneZilla images easily, using pxelinux.0. I have a tftp-hpa server running on a server, I tested it with a client and it works fine. We are using a FortiNet router as the DHCP server, so I added that :

set option1 66 '3139322e3136382e302e313533'
set option2 67 '7078656c696e75782e30'

Which would translate to 192.168.0.153 for the option 66, and pxelinux.0 for option 67. I dumped the DHCP offer packets to check, and that seems to be correct. When I try to boot an empty VMware workstation VM on PXE to check however, it does receive the options, but it asks the DHCP server (192.168.0.1) for the file pxelinux.0, completely ignoring option 66. Is that somehow normal behavior ? I've seen mention of option 43 and 60, but I understood it's used only for Microsoft environments. Maybe I'm supposed to set those options to something anyway to make the option 66 used ?

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Figured out a way to make it work. It looks like the option 66 isn't actually used by anyone, instead the next-server part of the protocol is used. Unfortunately, I can't change it on my version of the Fortinet firmware, it's automatically set to it's own address, so I added a policy to redirect traffic coming to port 69 (tftp) of the fortinet to the actual TFTP server, and it works perfectly. That's not a great solution, but at least it works.

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  • Hello from 8 years in the future. I ran around in circles with this issue and actually disregarded this answer at first because I thought "surely this option 66 works as designed" but nope... server pxe process ignores it option 66 completely and the tftp server "MUST" live on the dhcp host or setup a relay like you have done. I'm curious if you've found a better solution since you first wrote this?
    – Rino Bino
    Mar 23, 2022 at 2:16

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