On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:35:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm booting a physical machine with PXE (broadcom NIC) > and I've configured the dhcp server (isc dhcpd in centos5) > to hand out "filename /gpxelinux.0". > > That goes all fine. I can see gPXE 1.0.0 getting loaded, > and then gPXE does the second dhcp request. > > And here things go wrong.. on the console of the machine > I can see gPXE saying "Getting cached packet", and by snooping > the second DHCP request I can see it doesn't contain gPXE > identification strings.. >
Oh, and forgot to mention that gPXE also says: "DHCP (net0 mac) using cached": So it's definitely using the cached mode as a default.. > So now I cannot identify this second dhcp request and give gPXE > specific configuration from the dhcp server to the second dhcp request.. > > Any ideas how to resolve this? > > I noticed there's a "use-cached" setting/options in gPXE 1.0: > http://support.etherboot.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=57&project=1&status[0]= > > But how can I disable use-cached for chainloaded gpxelinux.0? > > There's an example: > "- Set use-cached on the DHCP server" > How do I set that in dhcpd.conf? > > I'm using syslinux-4.02 el5 rf rpm, which contains gpxe 1.0.0. > I tried this in dhcpd.conf .. but it doesn't seem to work: option space gpxe; option gpxe-encap-opts code 175 = encapsulate gpxe; option gpxe.bus-id code 177 = string; option gpxe.use-cached code 178 = unsigned integer 8; class "pxeclients" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient"; next-server 10.0.0.1; if not exists gpxe.bus-id { filename "/gpxelinux.0"; option gpxe.use-cached 0; } else { filename "http://10.0.0.1/gpxe/";; } } Any ideas? -- Pasi _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list gPXE@etherboot.org http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
