[syslinux] pxelinux and WDS

[Julien Garet]

Hello,

We are trying to set up a configuration with pxelinux on a linux machine and WDS, allowing us to be free to boot linux netboot installers from the tftp server. We have validated that pointing our dhcp server to the wds server works perfectly. 
Our idea was to use pxechain.com to launch the wdsnbp.com kernel as below :
label windows
        KERNEL pxechain.com
        APPEND <ip address>::\Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com

wdsnbp.com loads perfectly from the WDS server but our problem is that WDS uses dhcp to find which is the next server to load the next part of the WDS boot process (pxeboot.com) and as the dhcp next-server points to our linux server it does not work, there's a loop. I thought that it was the work of pxechain (i.e. rewrite the next server in memory to prevent making those kinds of loops).

We have seen that this set up as been reported successful by some people over the internet. Have we missed an option in the dhcpd config or elsewhere to allow this configuration to work ?

Sincerely,

Julien Garet