[syslinux] pxelinux load configuration files (ARP type code, and IPaddress in hex)

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/21/2012 11:24 AM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>>
>> Not really very useful; besides the rather obvious ambiguity, there
>> simply isn't a lot of locality in MAC space.
>>
>> There *may* be some value in specifically the OID portion of the MAC
>> address (the 01 for Ethernet plus three octets), but I have yet to hear
>> a compelling enough use case for everyone else to take the load time
>> penalty.
> 
> On the other hand, you could configure your TFTP server to pattern-match
> on the initial MAC address request, and map the entire range you're
> interested in onto one set of files.  tftp-hpa is capable of doing this;
> look for the -m option in the man page.
> 

Yes, this is probably better.  The mapping rules that people tend to
care about for MAC matches tend to be long and complicated and is
probably better done with server-side rewrite rules.

	-hpa