[gPXE] DHCP Client ID in gPXE 1.0.0?

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Thu Mar 18 01:34:20 EDT 2010


On Thursday 18 Mar 2010 04:04:01 Steven Shiau wrote:
> >>> gPXE continues to set the DHCP client identifier for backwards
> >>> compatibility.
> >>
> >> Any option I can turn it off? Make it like what PXE or Etherboot does?
> >
> > No.
> 
> Is that possible to provide a compiling option to make this?

No, and I would argue strongly against doing so.  We avoid using constructions 
like "#ifdef MY_FAVOURITE_FEATURE" wherever possible in gPXE, because of the 
sheer amount of pain it caused in the old Etherboot codebase.

Michael


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