[syslinux] Cannot chain to another PXE server on the same subnet

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 14:46:46 PST 2014


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 05:49 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote:

>> 1) Thinking about the responses again, I'm absolutely surprised that
>> you can even boot PXELINUX.  I would have expected the response from
>> the Altiris server to override your attempts to block it.
>
> Nope.  The PXE spec explicitly requires that a PXE response from the
> "real" DHCP server be given precedence.

So PXE from DHCP, PXE from PXE and file/sname from DHCP is the order
of precedence.

-- 
-Gene


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