[syslinux] Support DHCP sname field in PXELINUX
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jun 29 07:01:23 PDT 2007
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> said:
>> I mean, the right thing to do is probably, in order:
>>
>> 1. Use siaddr
>> 2. Use sname
>> 3. Use option 54.
>
> I've done some more digging, and it appears that the PXE BIOS in the
> computers I'm testing with do not look at the sname field. They do look
> at option 54 ("server-identifier" in Juniper JUNOS). It would probably
> be more "correct" then to duplicate that and use (siaddr, option 54) and
> ignore sname (since that is what it looks like the PXE BIOS does).
>
Right, if we can't get the PXE stack to boot in the first place using
sname, then we should just ignore it.
OK, option 54 as a fallback it is.
-hpa
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