> This is something that I'm looking for as well, but Foreman TFTP 
> smart-proxy seems to be missing native "ipxe" variant, that would allow for 
> creation of <tftp_path>/01-<MAC>.ipxe by calling something like this (based 
> on syntax for smart-proxy TFTP API described in [3]):

I don't understand how would you download the script from proxy, using
HTTP? There is no preconfigured httpd service by default.

> - support of more protocols to download config file - HTTP/HTTPS, etc.

But no TFTP, right? I am not following why someone would do this.

> - support for both UEFI and BIOS (both of which obviously understand iPXE 
> script/config file making this rather attractive alternative to having to 
> recognize the boot method of the system and create an appropriate config 
> files as described in [2]

iPXE UEFI is in quite early stage of development, you need to get a
recent build (2015). But sure, it's a great option for the future.

> Is there a reason why Foreman/Smart-proxy only uses iPXE by chaining 
> through PXElinux and not natively? Is it hard to add at least on 
> smart-proxy side?

No specific reason, the feature hasn't been delivered yet simply.

-- 
Later,
 Lukas #lzap Zapletal

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