NetBoot Issue-only get as far as the small spinning globe.

[daviddondero]

I seem to be having a problem with NetBoot. I have set up an NBI and did all the steps necessary to create a successful NetBoot. It is 10.7.2 boot done from the latest MacBook Pro model.
When attempting to go through the process it stops at the small spinning globe. At this point it somewhat hangs there. I believe this to be a TFTP issue, but want to make sure to see if there is a general consensus out here before I bring this issue to the network team.
I did do a tcp dump and copied my results below on the unsuccessful NetBoot.

Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on what might be happening and possible ways to rectify this issue?

Thanks to all in advance!
David

Here is a copy of the results:
13:45:54.775546 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 23735, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 328) 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from d8:30:62:a6:17:5a, length 300, xid 0x3d22f056, secs 1, Flags [none] Client-Ethernet-Address d8:30:62:a6:17:5a Vendor-rfc1048 Extensions Magic Cookie 0x63825363 DHCP-Message Option 53, length 1: Request Parameter-Request Option 55, length 9: Subnet-Mask, Default-Gateway, Domain-Name-Server, Domain-Name Option 119, LDAP, Option 252, Netbios-Name-Server Netbios-Node MSZ Option 57, length 2: 1500 Client-ID Option 61, length 7: ether d8:30:62:a6:17:5a Requested-IP Option 50, length 4: 10.103.75.166 Server-ID Option 54, length 4: 10.29.241.32 Hostname Option 12, length 12: "C02DW2NEDDR3" 0x0000: 4500 0148 5cb7 0000 ff11 5dee 0000 0000 E..H.....]..... 0x0010: ffff ffff 0044 0043 0134 6cdf 0101 0600 .....D.C.4l..... 0x0020: 3d22 f056 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 =".V............ 0x0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 d830 62a6 175a 0000 .........0b..Z.. 0x0040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0090: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0100: 0000 0000 0000 0000 6382 5363 3501 0337 ........c.Sc5..7 0x0110: 0901 0306 0f77 5ffc 2c2e 3902 05dc 3d07 .....w_.,.9...=. 0x0120: 01d8 3062 a617 5a32 040a 674b a636 040a ..0b..Z2..gK.6.. 0x0130: 1df1 200c 0c43 3032 4457 324e 4544 4452 .....C02DW2NEDDR 0x0140: 33ff 0000 0000 0000 3.......

[jarednichols]

Is your firewall on?

[daviddondero]

It is, or rather was. I also saw an interesting post here about tricking the Mac to boot.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111213085535590#comments

Unfortunately I will never know the answer to this as the company has decided to put this whole Mac project on hold.