On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 06:39:14PM +0200, Christian Nilsson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:10 AM, aromal victor <aromalvic...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi ipxe team, > > > > Need you guidance on making use of the feature - using alternate dhcp that > > runs on ports 1067 and 1068.
:-) > > Scenario:- > > > > I have an existing lab with DHCP which is maintained by IT and I have no > > control over it. > > > > Hi, > What you want is most likely a proxydhcp server instead, it listens on > port 4011 and only sends out the pxe options, while ip, dns, gateway > is still sent by the default dhcp server. Atleast this is what you > want if the default dhcp server does not provide any boot options. Next lines are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment The idea behind a proxyDHCP is to split the PXE DHCP requirements in two independently run and administered server units Advice: read the whole wikipedia article. > Unfortunately I have no suggestions on proxyDhcp servers you might > want to try, but I myself would like to hear recommendations for > proxyDhcp servers and configurations in combination with iPXE and > "avoiding the boot loop" Dnsmasq http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html has DHCP proxy support. Dnsmasq is packaged in Debian. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
