alternative dhcp server?

[mcb30]

(2011-04-06 01:29)AT-HE Wrote:  i had using tftpd32, very good program but it doesnt support chainloading

Looking at the tftpd32 source code, it seems that it currently allows for expansion of $IP$ and $MAC$ tokens within the configured boot filename.

It wouldn't be more than a few hours of work to add support for expanding $USERCLASS$ (i.e. the DHCP http://ipxe.org/cfg/user-class option) as well. That would let you do something like:

• Configure boot filename in tftpd32 as "$USERCLASS$boot.pxe"
• Serve up http://boot.ipxe.org/undionly.kpxe as "boot.pxe"
• Serve up an iPXE script as "iPXEboot.pxe"
  

The first DHCP request would have no user-class, and so would receive "boot.pxe" (which would be a copy of undionly.kpxe). The second DHCP request would have a user-class of "iPXE", and so would receive "iPXEboot.pxe" (which would be your iPXE script).

Instant chainloading support!