[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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