[syslinux] pxechn.c32: Status

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/09/2010 06:11 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 20:10, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I assume you must be referring to something like option 52 that allows
> DHCP fields file and sname to contain options?
> 

Yes.

	-hpa