[syslinux] Problem in getting tftp transfer to succeed

[H. Peter Anvin]

Louis Van den Broek wrote:
> 
> On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 11:01 PM, Josef Siemes wrote:
> 
>> that may be solvable. Perhaps the client insists on a special (or not
>> even special)
>> option to come from the server. I've seen clients refusing to boot if
>> they get the
>> boot file via the bootp options, but boot fine with the dhcp ones.
>> This would be
>> options 'bf' vs. '66' AFAIR.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I think you are right, I think the standard Mac OS X server puts
> the path to the file to be tftp-ed in the bf: option ...
> I didn't do a trace on the standard dhcp server but I'll bet it will be
> where you say it is ...
> 
> If I need help I'll let you know,
>

Technically using options for things like the boot file is only
permitted for DHCP, not for BOOTP.  Worse, quite a few DHCP clients
don't handle it correctly (pxelinux should, but the firmware is another
matter.)

	-hpa