[syslinux] pxelinux: Using just pxelinux.cfg/default

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pepo wrote:
> Hi friends...
> 
> I am using pxelinux but it is so slow when I don't write MAC addresses 
> in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf so How do I can use pxelinux.cfg/default directly 
> and not have to wait?
> 
> A lot of thanks.
> 

What Geert says is right; your TFTP server is broken.  With a proper 
TFTP server, going through the whole series of filenames should only 
take a fraction of a second.

However, you can override the default configuration file name by sending 
DHCP option 209.  See:

http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#special

	-hpa