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PXE Issue with Autodeploy

Hello,

I have used Autodeploy since 5.5 but am not able to get it working now.  The latest one I had working was 6.7.  The difference now is that I have a new linux PXE server and am using ESXi 7.0 but I think the issue is something simple with the PXE server.  The previous server was an old version of Altiris PXE/TFTP running on Windows.  I deploy RedHat systems successfully from this PXE server, so it does work but I realize that is a little different than Autodeploy.  I am using dnsmasq as the TFTP server.

When I boot, it loads the VMware undionly.kpxe.vmw-hardwired.0 but then I get a PXE error that the network is unreachable (attached).  The networking should be working because I had just booted and loaded the kpxe file from it.

If I press CTRL-B and type

set filename https://10.32.100.200:6501/vmw/rbd/tramp

chain https://10.32.100.200:6501/vmw/rbd/tramp

Then it boots and starts the autodeploy! 

I'm thinking I'm missing something in my dnsmasq config.  Any thoughts on this?

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