Syslinux - Nov 2003 - pxelinux web page question...

Hi-
	On the pxelinux web page here:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
	Mr. Anvin says the following:

"	PXELINUX does not support MTFTP, and I have no immediate plans of 
doing so. It is of course possible to use MTFTP for the initial boot, if 
you have such a setup. MTFTP server setup is beyond the scope of this 
document. "

	I am curious as to the possibility of 'mtftp for the initial boot', 
which I assume to mean that you could use a different tftp server / 
daemon to grab the kernel & subsequent data off of.  Is this possible? 
If so, how would I configure it to make it work? This would really make 
my life easier.
	This is important to me because I am not easily able to control which 
tftp server the DHCP server points to.  I could, however, setup my own 
tftp server (for example, tftpd-hpa) on a different machine that would 
be right.  I have gotten my machine (Dell PowerApp Web100) to grab 
pxelinux off the network, and then pxelinux complains about not having 
tsize, which makes me think that the tftp server that dhcp is pointing 
to sucks.
	Any suggestions / help appreciated.

Thanks,
Erik @ columbia.edu

Erik Dykema wrote:
> 
>     I am curious as to the possibility of 'mtftp for the initial
boot',
> which I assume to mean that you could use a different tftp server /
> daemon to grab the kernel & subsequent data off of.  Is this possible?
> If so, how would I configure it to make it work? This would really make
> my life easier.
>
No, it wouldn't.  This pretty much requires you to have the MTFTP server
on the same machine, which is completely useless in your application.

Trying to mess with this is pretty pointless, really.
>     This is important to me because I am not easily able to control
> which tftp server the DHCP server points to.  I could, however, setup my
> own tftp server (for example, tftpd-hpa) on a different machine that
> would be right.  I have gotten my machine (Dell PowerApp Web100) to grab
> pxelinux off the network, and then pxelinux complains about not having
> tsize, which makes me think that the tftp server that dhcp is pointing
> to sucks.
You need the DHCP server to send the next-server option.  There isn't
any other solution.

	-hpa