[syslinux] [PATCH 0/1] EFI PXE DHCP/proxyDHCP issues fix

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Tue May 26 17:06:18 PDT 2015


On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the current code, there's three calls to parse_dhcp().

> 3) With PxeReply.  The intention here was to grab the advanced
> server-provided parameters for network booting like the file and
> server to grab it from.
>
> The code of #3 is currently wrong as it ignores ProxyOffer.  I'm not
> arguing this needs to be patched.

A patch has been pushed that addresses just this portion.

Thinking now, examining the older BIOS code may offer better insight
into why someone wanted to parse DhcpDiscover.

-- 
-Gene


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