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Greetings. I was messing with PXE this evening and stumbled on a bug in how the dot-quad is generated. The test client IP was 192.168.1.100, but pxelinux was showing 192.168.1.10. The code breaks off the 1 in 100, then move to the 10s place. It sees 00 is less than 10, so it skips on to the ones place. The attached patch forces the 10s place to print if the 100s place prints. I'm

I am sending a patch that makes the debugging output of PXELINUX slightly more concise, without (intentionally) affecting its completeness at all. Additionally, I am proposing that the debugging output of PXELINUX -- specifically the messages that appear after the copyright statement, but before the menu is loaded -- only be shown in response to keyboard input (such as holding Shift or Alt, or

..."IPAPPEND 1|devname" ("devname" will usually be eth0). Unless and until this is done, here is my hack to change "ip=#:#:#:#" to "ip=#:#:#:#::eth0:" in pxelinux.asm (after "genipopt"): ... mov eax,[Netmask] call gendotquad ; Zero-terminates its output mov al,':' ; HACK stosb ; HACK mov al,':' ; HACK stosb ; HACK mov al,'e' ; HACK...