[syslinux] ethereal log of PXE bootup

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 20 21:12:18 PDT 2006


Ed Sutter wrote:
> So far, the few different PXE transactions that I've traced all show the
> DHCP server returning a PXE_DISCOVERY_CONTROL value of 08 (bit3 = 1).
> Also, I haven't seen anything in what I've read so far that appears to support
> the ability to configure the dhcp server to deal with this.
> So, that leads me to conclude that PXELinux always uses a PX_DISCOVERY_CONTROL
> value of 08.  Is this correct?

PXELINUX doesn't give a hoot.  By the time PXELINUX runs, the PXE stack 
has already done all the DHCP exchanges.

	-hpa




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