On Wednesday 10 Nov 2010 17:19:11 carlyoung at keycomm.co.uk wrote: > I have a question about the standard behaviour of gPXE 1.0.1 and iPXE. (The > tests I did were using VMware E1000 based boot-rom) > > the PXE 2.1 spec states [in para. 2.4.4] that the client should provide > option 71 (PXE_BOOT_ITEM) in boot server discovery but I cannot see this > in a trace using the gPXE 1.0.1 boot rom. > > I have a trace when using a CA MPC boot server (all I have access to > currently). The extended DHCP offer from the boot server has > option/sub-option 43/8 and 43/9 (PXE_BOOT_SERVERS and PXE_BOOT_MENU > respectively) and these both have the boot-server type (0007) present. > > The client then sends a DHCPREQUEST boot server discovery request without > the PXE_BOOT_ITEM type and the CA server ignores this request as the > explicit boot server type has not been specified. > > <snip>
Could you send (or publish and send a URL to) a copy of this trace? Thanks, Michael
