Syslinux - Dec 2004 - Important questions for PXELINUX users

Hello, everyone;

A few important questions if you use PXELINUX

- Do you use the PXELINUX-specific DHCP options?
- If you do, what DHCP server do you use?
- Are you using vendor encapsulation (a vendor-option-space) or not
   (a site-option-space)?
- Would it be inconvenient for you if these options were changed?

RFC 3942 is flagging these option codes for reclamation as official 
options.  I need to report to IANA the PXELINUX usage of these options 
before April 2005, and I need some data on how widely these are used, 
and whether or not I should push for some kind of official recognition 
of these options.

My current inclination is to keep supporting them in the current form 
(since they have the magic flag), but to consider the site-option-space 
form to be deprecated, and discontinue supporting it at some point in 
the future.  What isn't clear to me is whether or not it's the right 
thing to do to put these options in the vendor-option-space together 
with the (possible) PXE options, or in a separate nested option.

	-hpa

> - Do you use the PXELINUX-specific DHCP options?
My sample pxe configuration for the mandrakelinux rpm is to not use this
options. The only time I'd tried to use the 211 option, the PXE rom had
hang.
> - Are you using vendor encapsulation (a vendor-option-space) or not
>    (a site-option-space)?
option vendor-class-identifier "PXEClient";
vendor-option-space PXE;
option PXE.mtftp-ip 0.0.0.0;

> - Would it be inconvenient for you if these options were changed?
In my case, it doesn't change the way I'm using PXE.

-- 
Erwan Velu
Consultant - Seanodes SA
http://www.seanodes.com