On Wednesday 29 March 2017 23:22:39 Eric Luehrsen wrote:
> On 03/29/2017 04:35 PM, Dan Sneddon wrote:
> > On 03/29/2017 10:43 AM, Chris Novakovic wrote:
> >> On 29/03/2017 18:13, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:48:48PM +0200, Floris Bos wrote:
> >>>> The PXE boot firmware implementation of the Raspberry Pi 3
> >>>> has a bug causing it to fail if it receives replies
> >>>> instantly.
> >>>
> >>> Why not have a configurable dhcp-delay setting instead of putting
> >>> device-specific quirks into the source code of dnsmasq forever?
> >>
> >> +1 for a dhcp-delay setting, ideally per-MAC: the Ethernet adapters on
> >> older RPi models (as well as the built-in wifi adapter on the RPi 3)
> >> also use the b8:27:eb OUI, and this artificial delay oughtn't be applied
> >> to them.
> >
> > Another +1 for adding a dhcp-delay setting on a per-MAC basis.
> 
> PXE devices are limited. I guess in a way of thinking that is 
> intentionally so. A server side robustness action is a valid use case 
> consideration. I would suggest the "tag" option method. You can tag a 
> network if say a whole subnet was only to serve PXE security cameras. 
> You can tag a partial MAC (wildcard) to ID a manufacturer. Assign the 
> delay option to the tag. This is just like DHCP "need broadcast" and 
> other client-server quirks.

+1 for tag method.

-- 
Pali Rohár
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