[gPXE] gpxe 1.0.0 chainloading and disabling use-cached to make new second dhcp request

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:52:42PM +0200, Thomas Miletich wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:59:11PM -0400, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> >> > Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Setting use-cached to zero in the DHCP packet won't override
> >> gpxelinux.0's default setting it to 1.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the reply!
> >
> > I guess the default value for use-cached was changed at some point?
> > I found many docs indicating the default value is 0 ..
> > Those seemed to be old info..
> >
> 
> This is only the case in gpxelinux. The default for gPXE is still 0.
> gpxelinux.0 executes a gPXE script. The script is located at
> syslinux/gpxe/pxelinux.gpxe
> The script contains the line 'set use-cached 1' for newer syslinux
> releases. You can edit the script to suit your needs and rebuild
> gpxelinux.0
> 

Ok, that explains it. It seems I was confused about the relation between
gpxelinux and gpxe.

Thanks for clearing it up! 

Oh, I forgot to mention earlier, gPXE is damn cool!

-- Pasi