Syslinux - May 2003 - SYSLINUX 2.05-pre1 released

Okay, I have finally become convinced that hardware address based config
files should be a standard feature in PXELINUX, so I have added it.  I
am a bit worried that it might not work with all DHCP servers (since I'm
trying to do this in a hardware-independent manner), so I'd appreciate
feedback.

This adds one more name to the list of names queried for the config
file, before the IP-based ones: the client hardware address, in lower
case hexadecimal form, separated by dashes (-) and including type (01
for Ethernet.)  I'm using dashes since non-Unix OSes usually don't like
colons in filenames.

So the Ethernet address 88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD would cause PXELINUX to query
pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd for its configuration file.

As usual, test releases are in:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/

Note: I have not yet gotten around to fixing the recently discovered
COMBOOT bugs.  It's still on my list of things to do.

	-hpa

Yay! Will test when my schedule allows, which means this weekend, most 
likely.
--
Michael

On Mon, 19 May 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Okay, I have finally become convinced that hardware address based config
> files should be a standard feature in PXELINUX, so I have added it.? I
> am a bit worried that it might not work with all DHCP servers (since
I'm
> trying to do this in a hardware-independent manner), so I'd appreciate
> feedback.
> 
> This adds one more name to the list of names queried for the config
> file, before the IP-based ones: the client hardware address, in lower
> case hexadecimal form, separated by dashes (-) and including type (01
> for Ethernet.)? I'm using dashes since non-Unix OSes usually don't
like
> colons in filenames.
> 
> So the Ethernet address 88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD would cause PXELINUX to query
> pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd for its configuration file.
> 
> As usual, test releases are in:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
> 
> Note: I have not yet gotten around to fixing the recently discovered
> COMBOOT bugs.? It's still on my list of things to do.
> 
> ??????? -hpa
> 
> 
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