[Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH] iPXE is gPXE
Geert Stappers
stappers at stappers.nl
Fri Jan 5 07:25:46 GMT 2018
Happy New Year,
What is the judgement on the patch below?
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 08:55:22PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Development of EtherBoot gPXE was always development
> of iPXE core developer Michael Brown.
>
> http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git was last updated in 2011
> https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git is well alive
>
> This s/gPXE/iPXE/ reflects that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl>
> ---
> CHANGELOG | 4 ++--
> CHANGELOG.archive | 2 +-
> dnsmasq.conf.example | 16 ++++++++--------
> src/rfc2131.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
> index ae03836..7d7a2b7 100644
> --- a/CHANGELOG
> +++ b/CHANGELOG
> @@ -2054,13 +2054,13 @@ version 2.47
>
> Support arbitrarily encapsulated DHCP options, suggestion
> and initial patch from Samium Gromoff. This is useful for
> - (eg) gPXE, which expect all its private options to be
> + (eg) iPXE, which expect all its private options to be
> encapsulated inside a single option 175. So, eg,
>
> dhcp-option = encap:175, 190, "iscsi-client0"
> dhcp-option = encap:175, 191, "iscsi-client0-secret"
>
> - will provide iSCSI parameters to gPXE.
> + will provide iSCSI parameters to iPXE.
>
> Enhance --dhcp-match to allow testing of the contents of a
> client-sent option, as well as its presence. This
> diff --git a/CHANGELOG.archive b/CHANGELOG.archive
> index 2df495b..f4362ca 100644
> --- a/CHANGELOG.archive
> +++ b/CHANGELOG.archive
> @@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ version 2.41
>
> Add --dhcp-match flag, to check for arbitrary options in
> DHCP messages from clients. This enables use of dnsmasq
> - with gPXE. Thanks to Rance Hall for the suggestion.
> + with iPXE. Thanks to Rance Hall for the suggestion.
>
> Added --dhcp-broadcast, to force broadcast replies to DHCP
> clients which need them but are too dumb or too old to
> diff --git a/dnsmasq.conf.example b/dnsmasq.conf.example
> index 790eaf5..1ccca0c 100644
> --- a/dnsmasq.conf.example
> +++ b/dnsmasq.conf.example
> @@ -444,14 +444,14 @@
> # The same as above, but use custom tftp-server instead machine running dnsmasq
> #dhcp-boot=pxelinux,server.name,192.168.1.100
>
> -# Boot for Etherboot gPXE. The idea is to send two different
> -# filenames, the first loads gPXE, and the second tells gPXE what to
> -# load. The dhcp-match sets the gpxe tag for requests from gPXE.
> -#dhcp-match=set:gpxe,175 # gPXE sends a 175 option.
> -#dhcp-boot=tag:!gpxe,undionly.kpxe
> -#dhcp-boot=mybootimage
> -
> -# Encapsulated options for Etherboot gPXE. All the options are
> +# Boot for iPXE. The idea is to send two different
> +# filenames, the first loads iPXE, and the second tells iPXE what to
> +# load. The dhcp-match sets the ipxe tag for requests from iPXE.
> +#dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe
> +#dhcp-match=set:ipxe,175 # iPXE sends a 175 option.
> +#dhcp-boot=tag:ipxe,http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php
> +
> +# Encapsulated options for iPXE. All the options are
> # encapsulated within option 175
> #dhcp-option=encap:175, 1, 5b # priority code
> #dhcp-option=encap:175, 176, 1b # no-proxydhcp
> diff --git a/src/rfc2131.c b/src/rfc2131.c
> index f3a7e53..270f6a4 100644
> --- a/src/rfc2131.c
> +++ b/src/rfc2131.c
> @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ size_t dhcp_reply(struct dhcp_context *context, char *iface_name, int int_index,
>
> if (!workaround && boot)
> {
> - /* Provide the bootfile here, for gPXE, and in case we have no menu items
> + /* Provide the bootfile here, for iPXE, and in case we have no menu items
> and set discovery_control = 8 */
> if (boot->next_server.s_addr)
> mess->siaddr = boot->next_server;
> --
> 2.11.0
>
--
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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