[syslinux] pxelinux.cfg files

Per Jessen per at computer.org
Wed Feb 14 01:17:14 PST 2018


Bruce Ferrell via Syslinux wrote:

> Probably a dumb question, but I don't see to see an answer on the
> syslinux wiki...
> 
> Let's say I have a group of devices, all with company identifiable MAC
> addresses.
> 
> I want all devices from that company to boot the same from pxelinux
> and I may not know, in advance the individual ID part of the mac
> address.
> 
> Is it possible to have a config file that is ONLY the company part of
> the MAC address? Or should that maybe be done by dhcp?

Hi Bruce

we do something like that with dhcp - unknown/new machines are given
ipv4 addresses in a certain range, e.g. 192.168.234.0/24 - for that
one, we have one config file called C0A8DA. 




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