[syslinux] possible pxelinux.asm error

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 19 15:21:15 PDT 2007


stevea wrote:
> The syslinux-3.51 file pxelinux.asm appears to have an error in parsing 
> dhcp options.
> 
> Line 2267  has code to parse  boot file names from the dhcp options:
>            dopt 64, bootfile_name
>                    mov di,BootFile
>                    jmp dhcp_copyoption
> 
> however the correct rfc2132 option for the bootfile is decimal 67 and 
> NOT 64.
> The would seem to prevent some servers like dnsmasq from serving
> this client.
> 

Indeed, this is wrong.

	-hpa




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