[wds] TFTP Slow

[Hightower]

WDS is working pretty well for me, except it for some reason hangs on this screen for around 30 seconds:

 

 

I'm sure when I first set up WDS it whizzed past this screen and pretty much instantly started loading the boot image.

 

The boot image only takes a minute to load (which I expect is about normal) and the installation images don't take long at all, so I think WDS is functioning as it should. It's just the TFTP... bit that takes a while.

 

Any ideas?

 

EDIT: In the attached image it is apparent that this screen shot is taken on a VM, but I have also tried various bits of hardware and it is the same for all.

[Hightower]

Just posting here for the purposes of anyone else who might stumble on it as it seems I have found a solution.

 

I stumbled on this entry here: PXE-E55: ProxyDHCP service did not reply to request on port 4011 | Sysadminsblog.com

 

Content

 

All approved and rejected devices are added to a database. If a device is rejected WDS will not respond to requests coming from this device. The best way to solve this is to clear the rejected and/or approved devices database. To do this log on to your WDS server and run the following command:

Wdsutil.exe /delete-autoadddevices /devicetype:rejecteddevices

Wdsutil.exe /delete-autoadddevices /devicetype:approveddevices

 

 

I stumbled on this when searching for an error: PXE-E55 Proxy DHCP Service did not reply to request on port 4011, but it also seems to have fixed my slow TFTP problem too.