[syslinux] is substitution possible?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
  > Now that I had another look at the package name of my TFTP server, the
> pieces start to fit together...  :)
> 
> But the TFTP server has no information but the IP of its client.  That
> means it would need to maintain a separate mapping from IP-s to the
> client specific data, very similar to the DHCP configuration.  That
> sounds like unnecessary scattering of data.  Or am I mistaken again?

It again all depends on the client-specific data you're looking for.

There is actually a third option, which I forgot yesterday; you could 
write a custom com32 module (in C) that would be run client-side by 
pxelinux; that can control pxelinux in any way you want.

	-hpa