[gPXE] [Etherboot-developers] Feature request: PXE boot in proxy DHCPenvironment

Shao Miller Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Thu Nov 19 09:44:57 EST 2009


Nikolay Kasatkin wrote:
> It would be good thing if Etherboot or gPXE would have ability to boot 
> in "proxy DHCP" environment. Realization of amazing "proxy DHCP" 
> feature appear in Dnsmasq combo-server version 2.48 
> (http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG).
gPXE supports proxyDHCP already.  Please use gPXE.  If that doesn't 
work, please feel free to describe the failure mode.
> "Proxy DHCP" service described in Intel PXE spec. And before Dnsmasq 
> there were no open source solution around the web.
gPXE developers have read the Intel PXE spec.  They've also worked 
together with Simon Kelley for dnsmasq compatibility a couple of times.

Could we please move any further discussion to the gpxe at etherboot.org 
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- Shao Miller


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