ipxe speed with http

[warthur]

(2018-03-11 21:16)NiKiZe Wrote:  I would recommend switching to iPXE native menues instead of using pxelinux
iPXE also supports scripting, and you can dowload the boot script over http, that way the server can be smart and do lots more then "just have a HEX file to match the IP"

iPXE has lots of changes over gPXE and the best is probably just to test how it would work for your usecase, I think there is lots of resources and examples here on the forum if you just search fro centos.

Thanks. So I guess the easiest test would be to just adjust the dhcp server to boot "undionly.kpxe", and then just re-write the pxe menu files to be ipxe menu syntax? Does ipxe also match menu files based on HEX/IP Range? Would http transfer speed of a large 500mb img file be much quicker?

And if I embed a script for "breaking the loop" like in this document: http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading And that points to a php file somewhere on a web server, does that web server need to have a php handler installed or is it just a plain text file with #!ipxe at the top of it as well?

Thanks again, any help is appreciated!