[syslinux] pxechn.c32 does not do TFTP
Gene Cumm
gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 14:30:07 PDT 2013
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Digging more, loadfile("192.0.2.1::pxe.0", &file.data, &file.size),
> queries DNS, which sounds like it doesn't follow the same call path as
> a COM32 calling pxe_dns(). If the DNS won't resolve the IP, things
> won't load properly. pxechn.c32 sets sname in the intended packet to
> "192.0.2.1" which may be confusing something.
>
> More debugging needed.
>
> --
> -Gene
core/legacynet/dns_resolv.c is quite different and doesn't bother
testing quads first.
Matt/HPA: should this be patched or somehow checked to see if it can
be factored away? I've got a crude patch that I can clean up.
--
-Gene
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