PXE-E95, PXE-E92, PXE-E32 & PXE-E35 TFTP Errors

Products

• Deployment Solution

Issue/Introduction

When clients are booting PXE they receive the following error:

PXE-E95  MTFTP Read Timeout
PXE-E92  MTFTP Open Timeout

or

PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout.
TFTP open request was not acknowledged. Verify that the MTFTP service is running.

PXE-E35: TFTP read timeout.
Next TFTP data packet was not received.

Cause

This is caused by client computers not being able to receive the PXE bootstrap file via multicast.

Resolution

Solution 1: From the Deployment Server console:

1. Open Tools > PXE Configuration.
2. Select the PXE server that the clients are using.
3. Click the Multicast tab.
4. Un-check Use Multicast for Boot File Transfer (Deployment Solution 5.6) or Enable MTFTP (Deployment Solution 6.5, 6.8).

Note: When Deployment Solution is upgraded from previous versions, this setting may be re-enabled.

 

Solution 2: Check configuration of PXE Forced Mode.

Use the document 'PXE Forced Mode Utility', document HOWTO5258.

 

NOTE: See also: 'PXE-E32: TFTP OPEN TIMEOUT error when attempting to PXE boot', TECH6342.

Applies To

Deployment Solution versions 6.1 to 6.9 SP 4.