PXE boot not happening due to DHCP issue

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I could PXE boot this laptop to some extent yesterday but all of a sudden after some time it started to show this error message. I reinstalled my tftp server etc in between.

It seems that DHCP lease issue is happening. The client wants some specific address I think? Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Client requested address 0.68.101.98 [06/06 04:37:27.658]
no more address or address previously allocated by another server [06/06 04:37:27.658]
Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:0E:7B:23:FA:11 [06/06 04:37:29.670]
Client requested address 0.68.101.98 [06/06 04:37:29.670]
no more address or address previously allocated by another server [06/06 04:37:29.670]
Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:0E:7B:23:FA:11 [06/06 04:37:33.679]
Client requested address 0.68.101.98 [06/06 04:37:33.679]
no more address or address previously allocated by another server [06/06 04:37:33.679]
Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:0E:7B:23:FA:11 [06/06 04:37:41.699]

Best Answer

This message usually occurs when your DHCP pool is full (i.e. every address that can be allocated by the DHCP server has been used, or is reserved).

If you restart the DHCP daemon (which should release all the IP addresses), does this still happen?