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ifgpxe.c32 is a com32 module that will run one command if gPXE extensions are available, and a different command if not. At VMware, we use this module to chain-load gpxelinux.0 from pxelinux.0. Both of those binaries use exactly the same configuration file, and this module allows us to differentiate between the two cases and break the infinite chain-loading loop that might result. Typical usage:

I saw Geoff Lywood's patch to check gPXE functionnality, it is very interesting. Would it make sense to make add the gPXE availability flag inside the Lua interpreter? In my case, I would use it to detect if I can boot Windows PE the old-fashioned way by tftp or if I can download an ISO by http and boot it with m...