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2016 Jun 18
2
Locally-loaded syslinux.efi with remote HTTP config?
Question:
If syslinux.efi is loaded locally off USB rather than via an EFI PXE
option ROM boot, but on a client whose EFI firmware has TCP support,
should that locally-booted syslinux.efi be able to process HTTP URLs?
Initial experiments indicate "no", but why not?
Purpose:
My TCP-capable EFI client is on a subnetwork with broken DHCP not
under my control, so I can't
2016 Jun 18
0
Locally-loaded syslinux.efi with remote HTTP config?
...:
> My TCP-capable EFI client is on a subnetwork with broken DHCP not
> under my control, so I can't achieve a traditional network PXE boot
> to my PXE server;
How broken that DHCP server setup is, is unclear to me.
Question: Has Proxy-DHCP been considered?
At http://ipxe.org/gsoc#proxydhcp_server is good explainatin
of Proxy-DHCP
> as a solution, I seek a simple USB-based shim that
> will boot locally and then chain me over to my PXE server. Attempts
> with ipxe snponly weren't immediately successful,
I still feel the need to hint
to http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2016-...
2016 Jun 18
2
Locally-loaded syslinux.efi with remote HTTP config?
...is on a subnetwork with broken DHCP not
>> under my control, so I can't achieve a traditional network PXE boot
>> to my PXE server;
>
> How broken that DHCP server setup is, is unclear to me.
>
> Question: Has Proxy-DHCP been considered?
>
> At http://ipxe.org/gsoc#proxydhcp_server is good explainatin
> of Proxy-DHCP
"not under my control" sounds like a perfect fit for ProxyDHCP.
ProxyDHCP can be very selective about only providing a response to
previously known clients, implementation-dependent, supersceding DHCP
responses for boot data while the client syste...