[syslinux] ipappend behaviour for bootif

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Nov 22 09:02:06 PST 2006


Ram Yalamanchili wrote:
> Is it normal for pxelinux to append something like
> BOOTIF=01-aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff ? the leading 01- is there in my config file
> name, but this doesn't seem to be right behaviour. Can someone confirm if
> this is a bug?
> 
> I tried this on syslinux 3.21.
> 

It's correct. 01- is the hardware type code for Ethernet, which is there 
to distinguish it from other hardware types.

	-hpa




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