[syslinux] pxelinux magic options 208

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 11/08/2010 11:41 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>>
>> I added that, but there was no change in behavior - the configfile option
>> is still ignored.
>>
>> But I take it from your response that you think the request-list option is
>> not required anymore? And that ISC dhcpd should be able to do this?
>>
>
> FWIW, it might be better to use:
>
> vendor-option-space "pxelinux";
>
> That avoids the issue with the request-list.

If I include that statement with the quotes, ISC dhcpd 4.1.1 complains at
that line:

   /etc/dhcpd.conf line 7: expecting a parameter or declaration
   vendor-option-space "pxelinux";
                                 ^
If I remove the quotes (following the wiki example), it goes for another 
line and complains:

   etc/dhcpd.conf line 8: no option space named pxelinux.
   option pxelinux.configfile
                   ^

Does more have to be done? References to documentation would be welcome. 
My main source for dhcp is the "DHCP Handbook" 2nd edition from 2002, but 
I see nothing more recent on Amazon. As far as I can tell the man pages, 
release notes and readme files are all silent on these issues.

Daniel Feenberg


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