diskless bootstation and dhcp

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

Hello,

I am trying to set up a (half)diskless workstation, but I ran in to a
problem. I made a bootdisk with boots and loads the ethernet card. 
My server is running portmap and I am able to mount a nfs on my server. 

As LILO optionsfor the bootdisk I have tried:
append="nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/nfsboot nfsaddrs=192.168.1.4:192.168.1.1::foo:eth0:none"

where 192.168.1.1 is my server and I would like that 192.168.1.4 is my
client with name 'foo' at eth0 with, explicitly NO autoconfiguration.

The thing I do not get is that when booting, the kernel DOES try to get
the addresses from a DHCP or RARP server.


Because I do not know why this happend, I tried to install dhcp on the
server with simple configuration:
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
	range 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.100;
}


and I start it. Seems ok, but the client is still not receiving its
addresses and on the server there is also no action to be seen.
When running a nmap I also do not see a dhcp or bootp port open, and also
/etc/inetd.conf shows now dhcp entry. ps aux shows that it is running.

What is going on and how can I make it work?

Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan