<div>If the project is interested, I patched gPXE to add another capability. I was trying to make gPXE present to boot mac in the same format as pxelinux IPAPPEND, but they didn't use colons. A lot of linux installers/netboot code understands BOOTIF as-is, so this was required to evoke those features. So I added a ${netX/machyp} so I could have hyphenated mac addresses like pxelinux did. Also, to poster, I recommend you use netX instead of net0. net0 will always be the 'first' nic, netX will be whatever nic you booted from.if you really want a reliable per-host identifier rather than per-interface, I would eye uuid a little more closely. You may encounter a situation where predicting which interface would be 'net0' could be difficult.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is the patch I used.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://xcat.svn.sf.net/svnroot/xcat/xcat-dep/trunk/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.0-hyphenatedmachyp.patch">http://xcat.svn.sf.net/svnroot/xcat/xcat-dep/trunk/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.0-hyphenatedmachyp.patch</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Doug Shove <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsshove@gmail.com">dsshove@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>I'm wondering the best way to approach this issue: I have TFTP server running on a Windows box. I'd like to have a single file per MAC address on the TFTP server. gPXE clients would then retrieve the file:<br>
tftp://<server>/clients/${net0/mac}<br><br>The problem is that Windows doesn't support colon ':' in the file name, however it does support dash '-'.<br><br>What would be the best approach (in code or otherwise) to choose the format for a MAC address within gPXE?<br>
<br><br>Thank you,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Doug Shove<br>
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