[syslinux] PXE boot by MAC Vendor

Cristi cristi.mitrana at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 00:07:33 PST 2007


On 1/5/07, Clonch, Christopher A (Chris) <clonch at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> I know this has been discussed many moons ago, but my search attempts on the mailing list archive and Google have not yielded any more information.  Here's my situation:
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> Currently all clients boot a generic "boot menu" which allows them to choose different images.  However I now have a PPC client that can not load the x86 complied pxelinux boot menu image.  So I now want to have a portion of the clients (right now just those PPC ones) boot a different image.  I figure that using the vendor portion of their MAC address, as mentioned here http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-May/005223.html <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-May/005223.html> , would be the simplest way to accomplish this.  It seems this might be relatively easy to do using tftp-hpa (which I am using) and rewrite rules.  From the man pages I understand the rewrite rules file structure, but fail to see how to put it all together.
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 It would be more easy to detect the arch of the client in ISC dhcpd
and hand over to the client a different menu/boot image. See:
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/DHCP#How_to_automatically_pass_the_co
-- 
mitu




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