PXE Boot from WDS Server, works on ESXi VMs but not on real PCs ?

I have an odd issues,

I have ESXi server which hosts multiple servers includung DHCP and Windows Deployment server (Different VMs) ...  once i finished configuring WDS  I tested it by running PXE boot on a VM hosted same ESXi, it worked.

However when i try to boot real PC from PXE i get:

PXE-E51: N0 DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were recived

ESXi its VMs and real PC are all on the same subnet.

Any ideas on how to get it to work ?

March 30th, 2015 8:23am
Do you see the MAC address of a real computer in smspxe.log on the pxe enabled DP?
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March 30th, 2015 9:08am

Look at it from a network perspective. . .is the PXE request from the physical PC even making it to the PXE server hosted on ESXi?

Jeff

March 30th, 2015 10:07am

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