Re: does grub2 support proxy dhcp?

[Thomas Frauendorfer]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:39 PM Daniel Kiper <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:08:07PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote:
> > Hi Olaf,
> >
> > Current Grub does not handle proxy DHCP correctly.
> > There is a patch to add support for proxy DHCP in the mailing list
> > archives, but it was never merged.
> > I did some adjustments to make it apply to 2.04 for work which I could
> > share if you are interested.
>
> Yes, please share it...

Hi,

I pushed the current state to
https://github.com/MiraySoftware/grub2/commits/sysload_2_4_pxe
but the patches are not cleaned up to a state that would allow the
merge them to Grub.
Also, the patches apply to 2.04 but won't apply to Grub trunk because
of the most recent changes there,

The updated patch based on the on this mailing list is here:
https://github.com/MiraySoftware/grub2/commit/9f2092f4bb3ab462e07bc80969e60234fc191b5b

Then some adjustments to make it work in our test setup:
https://github.com/MiraySoftware/grub2/commit/5a50f39e7172540bf8c4d5c77a3ccf2263857db5

Then a patch to prefer proxy dhcp as default server:
https://github.com/MiraySoftware/grub2/commit/01ffd8b28e8bccae25d9851d4bc53c3c0a4c4d8c

And a patch to add a environment variable to get the tftp server
because I wasn't sure if the grub_net_default_server variable should
refer to the dhcp or the tftp server and I did not want to change too
much in the current default behavior.
https://github.com/MiraySoftware/grub2/commit/ef33547863b2261a433ed23ce18c2772766ee51f

I don't know if those patches are of any use to anybody. But if you
have any questions please feel free to ask.

Thomas