On Wednesday 16 Feb 2011 12:43:04 Nicolas Bourbaki wrote: > I'd like to request a feature to improve the default behavior of gPXE. > I noticed that some DHCP implementations uses the "secs" field as a > threshold value. In order for your DHCPDiscover to be transmitted to > the DHCP server the router will check the value of the "secs" field in > your DHCP packet, if the value is below a threshold, then the packet > is discarded. By default, gPXE does not increment this counter which > leave clients without an IP address. In order to improve the gPXE > experience in an existing network I'd like to see this implemented. > > You'll find attached a patch which may seem "naive" but works as expected.
Thanks for the feature suggestion! Please try upgrading to iPXE (http://ipxe.org), which already increments the "secs" field, and so should work correctly in your network with no modifications required. You should upgrade to iPXE anyway, since it is actively maintained; it's just a happy coincidence that your particular feature request has already been implemented in iPXE. :) Also, sorry about the extended delay in responding; I have only just received your message. I believe the gPXE project infrastructure (including the mailing lists) has been broken for over a month now. (Redirected to the [email protected] mailing list, which works.) Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
