[Dnsmasq-discuss] ProxyDHCP mode is broken for serving ipxe.efi to UEFI pxe clents

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Sun May 15 20:16:31 BST 2016


On 15/05/16 09:03, Michael Kuron wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> thanks, it’s working fine for me now. Before releasing 2.76, it would
> be good if more people could test this on actual hardware. Also,
> there’s one more item that needs to go into the release notes: we now
> redirect all clients to port 4011, including the BIOS clients. This
> is a change in behavior over the previous release, where the option
> 43 menu was sent on port 68. This could potentially break things for
> some very old and broken PXE implementations. It’s unlikely, since
> the port 4011 stuff has always been part of the PXE spec, but
> possible. I don’t think it’s really necessary, but I have included a
> patch below that restricts the port 4011 redirect to CSA >= 6. With
> that patch, the PXE behavior for BIOS clients is exactly what it was
> in older releases.
> 
> Michael
> 

Patch applied. That makes me happy. I've also added a description of the
changes to CHANGELOG. Does that make sense, or have I horribly mangled this?

Cheers

Simon.




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