[syslinux] tftp with pxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.10-pre17

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/28/2011 11:55 PM, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> setting up a netboot server for a really huge network I decided to go with
> what will be syslinux 4.10 to get support for http transfers.
>
> The setup works on my notebook, booting another notebook directly connected.
> However it fails with a more complex setup: A virtual machine on the
> second notebook bridged to the ethernet device does not boot, systems from
> other networks with a router in between do not boot either.
>
> The last message I can see on the clients is "Trying to load:
> pxelinux.cfg/<mac>". With tcpdump I can confirm there is a request
> for /pxelinux.cfg/<uid>  (which is answered correctly with "no such file").
> But there is nothing about /pxelinux.cfg/<mac>  in the logs (neither request
> nor answer).
>
> This used to work perfectly with syslinux 4.05. Any ideas what could go wrong?
>
> BTW, is there a git repo containing the latest code for syslinux pre 4.10?
> Could not find one so far.

Is there any way you could get a packet trace of the failing system?

	-hpa