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  Thread: Heuristic to break DHCP infinite loop
Post: RE: Heuristic to break DHCP infinite loop

I just noticed the almost undocumented scriptlet option. This is even better than the heuristic that I suggested. So now I just want to suggest that scriptlet gets documented in https://ipxe.org/cfg/...
alkisg General 1 5,886 2020-04-05, 12:34
  Thread: Heuristic to break DHCP infinite loop
Post: Heuristic to break DHCP infinite loop

I would like to propose a small heuristic to make it easier to break the DHCP infinite loop. Currently, users that have microtik routers or pfsense servers are advised to build ipxe on their own, whi...
alkisg General 1 5,886 2020-04-03, 10:24
  Thread: Loading mixed compression initrds fails
Post: RE: Loading mixed compression initrds fails

Thank you NiKiZe for your input. The kernel in question properly supports all the tested formats. The problem only appears when mixing them. E.g. gzip + gzip works, lz4 + lz4 works, but gzip + lz4 fa...
alkisg General 2 6,399 2019-08-26, 08:58
  Thread: Loading mixed compression initrds fails
Post: Loading mixed compression initrds fails

I think that ipxe doesn't properly align the initrds into 4-byte boundaries or something, as if one tries to load two initrds of different compressions, it fails and the kernel reports "decompression ...
alkisg General 2 6,399 2019-08-26, 07:19
  Thread: Getting proxyDHCP info from PXE stack
Post: RE: Getting proxyDHCP info from PXE stack

As we found out with robinsmidsrod in IRC, the problem with .kkpxe was the old iPXE version that comes with Ubuntu 12.04. With the upstream iPXE version the .kpxe variant worked fine too. Thank you Ro...
alkisg General 2 8,981 2014-12-18, 07:04
  Thread: Getting proxyDHCP info from PXE stack
Post: Getting proxyDHCP info from PXE stack

I'm currently using pxelinux.0 with dnsmasq/proxyDHCP and I'm looking to replace it with undionly.kpxe. Specifically, I'm looking to reuse the DHCP packet(s) that the PXE stack has in order to avoid ...
alkisg General 2 8,981 2014-12-17, 07:56