[syslinux] PXE boot by MAC Vendor

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Jan 6 12:10:26 PST 2007


Clonch, Christopher A (Chris) wrote:
> I assume the DHCP server (I am using ISC's) needs to pass the MAC information to tftpd.  How is this done?  Then I am guessing that tftpd, using the rewrite rules, changes the path/filename of the image to the correct one if the client's vendor matches the rewrite rule.  Correct?

A much easier way to do this is to use the dynamic rules in ISC dhcpd 3 
to select the boot file directly.

	-hpa




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