[syslinux] Syslinux 5.10 released

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
> <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>> On 06/04/2013 06:16 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Finally, Syslinux 5.10 has been released. This release includes a merge
>>> of the 4.10 development branch, which means that there's a new network
>>> stack availble, based on the lwIP embedded TCP/IP stack. The jump from
>>> the previous 5.01 release to 5.10 may be a little confusing, but a new
>>> network stack is such a large change that it deserved a significant bump
>>> in the version minor number.
>
>> Nice, thanks for this release.
>>
>> I guess can be a good time, to take again issues with PXE booting with
>> special dhcp-options 209, 210, that I recently tested with 5.10 (but
>> using the new stack) and still fails. Sending details again in a new
>> message if needed...
>
> Using pxechn.c32, I'm having no issues with options 209/210 to
> Syslinux-5.10 official core/pxelinux.0 or core/lpxelinux.0.
>
> Is there any chance you could do a packet capture?  I'm going to try
> to get an experiment with forcing these options but not sure my dhcpd
> will comply.
>
> --
> -Gene

Using vendor-encapsulated options, I just force-fed 209/210 and it worked.

Gerardo, are you sure that your PXE client received the DHCP offer
with option 209/210?  packet capture from the DHCP server should show
this.

--
-Gene