[syslinux] pxelinux magic options 208

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Miller, Shao wrote:

> Good day Daniel,
>
> Could you be interested in attaching your ISC DHCP daemon config-file,
> possibly obfuscating any sensitive material/secrets, as necessary (MAC
> addresses, passwords)?
>
> - Shao Miller
>

Well, here is the global section, plus the group for "bsddefault". The 
rest isn't secret, but would probably be a distraction. I'd really like to
get pxelinux.configfile working and any help would be much appreciated. I 
also tried without the request list and many other possibilities.

Daniel Feenberg
NBER

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authoritative;

option space pxelinux;
option pxelinux.configfile code 209 = text;

option ntp-servers  66.251.72.7, 66.251.72.1;
ddns-domainname     "nber.org";
ddns-update-style   none;
ddns-updates        off;
default-lease-time  18000;
max-lease-time      18000;
option domain-name-servers 66.251.72.133,  66.251.72.22, 66.251.72.134,
                            64.80.233.226;
option domain-name "nber.org";
allow bootp;
allow booting;

...(many lines of linux servers omitted)...

group {
       next-server 66.251.72.1;
       filename "pxelinux384.0";
       option root-path "66.251.72.44:/vol/vol1c/FreeBSD-8.1-root";

option pxelinux.configfile "bsddefault";
if exists dhcp-parameter-request-list {
    option dhcp-parameter-request-list =
       concat(option dhcp-parameter-request-list,d0,d1,d2,d3);
}
host client2   {fixed-address 66.251.73.20;hardware ethernet 0:13:20:4c:7d:08;}}

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