[syslinux] syslinux.efi pxeboot across multiple subnets

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 07:37:29 PST 2013


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Jason Matthews
<jason.david.matthews at gmail.com> wrote:
> I attempted the patch, but had to add a declaration to get it to compile. I
> also added the gateway like before. Here's a link to the modified diff I
> used and the pcaps from tftpserver and mirrored port from boot to reset.
>
> http://ge.tt/136167y/v/0
>
> I'm also not sure about if I'm building correctly or not. Considering that
> I get a different syslinux.efi when I compile without making modifications
> to the source (one that doesn't work with same subnet) makes me wonder if
> some of my libraries are bad or something.
>
> At any rate, thanks for all the help. I think I've learned more trying to
> figure out what's going on with this than I have in the past year.

It appears it's not so simple.  Setting the gateway unnecessarily
breaks my 1 subnet test.

-- 
-Gene

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text,
especially the archives of mailing lists.
Q: Why is Top-posting such a bad thing?

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a completely untested patch if someone wants to try and take it
>> for a spin?


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