how can a DHCP client get the DHCP server IP?
 

Thanks.

By broadcasting to it's subnet.

See RFC 2131 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2131.html)

I use pxelinux and the following config file:
 

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label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img vga=0x0314 ip=192.168.0.249:192.168.0.2:0.0.0.0:255.255.255.0:::off
ipappend 1

or

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label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img vga=0x0314 ip=192.168.0.249:192.168.0.2:0.0.0.0:255.255.255.0::eth0:off
ipappend 1

but after linux boot the ip is not set.

thanks a lot.

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