[syslinux] pxechn.c32: Status

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 9 17:10:32 PST 2010


On 11/07/2010 07:27 AM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 
> Yes; editing the cached packets is definitely needed, because some NBP's 
> really need us to rewrite the siaddr and bootfile fields in order for 
> anything useful to happen.  I agree that being able to add/edit other 
> options would be useful; that's the sort of thing that's really too complex 
> to do in PXECHAIN.ASM but ought to be reasonable for a COM32 module.
> 

One thing that's worth noting is that DHCP packets has something called
"overrides", which changes the meanings of certain fields.  Although
rarely used, they do exist in the field, and is something pxechain
really should know about.

	-hpa




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