[syslinux] ipappend in pxelinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Joe Patterson wrote:

> 
> Is this due to a change in how the linux kernel ip autoconf works, or am I
> completely missing something?  Is there an easy way to change that to be
> more like:
> 
> ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:::off
> 


This is doable, but I'm worried about it being compatible with older 
kernels.


> or even
> 
> ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>::eth0:off


How do you know that the kernel will call it "eth0"?

Since apparently other kernel versions have accepted the current form, I 
would much rather have this fixed in the kernel.

	-hpa