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Re: RFC Patch [0/2] PXE Add support for proxy DHCP
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: RFC Patch [0/2] PXE Add support for proxy DHCP |
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Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:05:42 +0200 |
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On 19.04.2014 02:26, Mroczek, Joseph T wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Currently, grub does not support getting boot server information from a proxy
> DHCP server. This patch set adds this support for EFI. If the approach is
> good, I will go back and create a i386-pc patch as well.
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> It works by combining the contents from the two DHCP packets into a single
> source. This seems simpler and cleaner than updating all the DHCP code to
> work with multiple packets and juggling precedence across all the options.
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> Any help in getting this support into grub would be greatly appreciated.
>
We have patch for similar problem for i386-pc port (attached).
The main problem with it is that it wasn't tested. If you can confirm
that it works for EFI as well (after adaptations from your patch), we
could commit pxe2.diff and necessarry adaptations on top of it.
> ~joe
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