[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.05-pre1 released
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon May 19 18:01:52 PDT 2003
Okay, I have finally become convinced that hardware address based config
files should be a standard feature in PXELINUX, so I have added it. I
am a bit worried that it might not work with all DHCP servers (since I'm
trying to do this in a hardware-independent manner), so I'd appreciate
feedback.
This adds one more name to the list of names queried for the config
file, before the IP-based ones: the client hardware address, in lower
case hexadecimal form, separated by dashes (-) and including type (01
for Ethernet.) I'm using dashes since non-Unix OSes usually don't like
colons in filenames.
So the Ethernet address 88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD would cause PXELINUX to query
pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd for its configuration file.
As usual, test releases are in:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
Note: I have not yet gotten around to fixing the recently discovered
COMBOOT bugs. It's still on my list of things to do.
-hpa
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