[syslinux] PXEboot: can't find configfile on tftpd server

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Sep 26 15:29:38 PDT 2005


Geert Stappers wrote:
> 
> On the Etherboot mailinglist wrote Jim McQuillan
> ( http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12947761 )
> 
> | I've had a dialog with David Hankins of ISC, and he pointed out that the
> | intended behaviour of a dhcp client should be, if a netbooting client
> | gets an offer that has a siaddr field of zeros, then it should ignore
> | that offer and hope for a better offer from another dhcp server.
> 
> That approach allows having having multiple DHCP server on the network.
> ( one for Internet access and another DHCP server for netbooting. )
> 

By the time you fall into PXELINUX, the DHCP data we have is what we 
have.  The decision has already been done.

	-hpa




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