Syslinux - Aug 2007 - [PATCH] Add support for DHCP-Options [ CHADDR? ]

Ferenc,

Any chance you could make DHCP CHADDR available in your macro patch?

It would solve a lot of problems for a lot of people I think.

I'm trying to do it, but its going to take me a while to figure out how to
checkout the git source code, apply your patch, and perhaps create a
renderer for 00:xx:xx:xx:xx ect.. format.

BTW really enjoy your posts!

John Willis wrote:
> Ferenc,
> 
> Any chance you could make DHCP CHADDR available in your macro patch?
> 
> It would solve a lot of problems for a lot of people I think.
> 
> I'm trying to do it, but its going to take me a while to figure out how
to
> checkout the git source code, apply your patch, and perhaps create a
> renderer for 00:xx:xx:xx:xx ect.. format.
> 
That would be a bad format to use, because it assumes Ethernet.
PXELINUX uses 01-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx for Ethernet addresses, since 01 is
the ARP/DHCP media type for Ethernet.  The use of dashes rather than the
more commonly used colons is because colons are special in many
filesystems, and dashes is actually the official form as used by the
IEEE.  In a Unix environment it's easy enough to convert forms.

	-hpa