[syslinux] EFI: PXE: "My IP is 0.0.0.0"

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 11:48:30 PDT 2015


On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Starting a new thread for the moment and BCCing the two reporters of the issue.
>
> Looking over the code, I think I finally see why we get junk data from
> the PXE base.  If we tell the PXE base that a buffer is 0 bytes long,
> we should expect junk/null data.
>
> I'm hoping to have a patch for testing over the weekend.  If either of
> you would rather start a bug on the bugzilla, feel free.

Attached are a patch and a limited set of test binaries.  Patch is
relative to 38e861eb.  This should give more indication to the EFI PXE
"My IP is 0.0.0.0" issue.

-- 
-Gene
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