[syslinux] ethereal log of PXE bootup
Ed Sutter
esutter at lucent.com
Mon Oct 23 05:27:08 PDT 2006
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
Ok, thanks. I guess I need to read that spec.
Ed
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