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Q: When booting from the network via PXE the following message is displayed

Found TFTP server in kernel cmdline
Checking TFTP server name: 192.168.0.10
TFTP server: 192.168.0.10 not found
Using TFTP server from dhcp-info

In this case the address given by the "kiwitftp" kernel parameter cannot be resolved and the address of the DHCP server is used for TFTP server as well.

This default behavior could potentially be incorrect. However, there is no risk with this behavior. The client already receives data from the DHCP server and therefore it should be permissible to receive additional data from the same server.

If the tftp server is not running on the DHCP server the image download will fail. It is recommended to provide the tftp server address in the pxelinux configuration file, even if it is the same address as the DHCP server.