Hello, 

I'm working on a project that aims to centralize deployment methods at a 
university. iPXE is going to be the cornerstone of this effort. 

One thing we'd like to be able to do is to allow various other IT departments 
to use this central iPXE menu to boot to their existing PXE servers (i.e. FOG, 
Ghost, Cobbler, etc). 
It seems like this should be possible with chain command, and indeed it will go 
ahead and load a PXELINUX image from another TFTP server, but when that image 
is launched, it appears to be looking at the iPXE server to get the new 
pxelinux.cfg file, not the newly supplied other PXE server. 

Is there a good way to "bounce" off of iPXE and over to another PXE server? 

Alternately, we may be able to solve *most* of this problem if we could use 
iPXE variables (i.e. ${hostname}, ${mac}) inside of vesamenu.c32, so that 
pointing at things like our FOG server (which generates MAC-specific 
pxelinux.cfg files to perform 'tasks') could be done in a dynamic fashion. 

If there's a way to do either of these, please let me know. 

Thanks much, 

Mike Sollanych - [email protected] 
IT Services RCG - Simon Fraser University 

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