As I understand it, it just allows other rules to be written that
specifically target pxe requests. So just enabling it won't have any effect.

http://www.richud.com/wiki/Network_iPXE_dnsmasq_Examples_PXE_BOOT

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo <mangel...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> What does iPXE do exactly?,
>
> What are the implications of having this enabled by default?
>
> Cheers,
> Miguel Ángel
>
>
> Kevin Benton wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to resurrect this thread. The patch has been sitting for quite a
> while.
>
> Since it doesn't modify the responses by default of DHCP messages, I'm
> inclined to just let it merge for now as a dnsmasq-specific change. Then
> maybe later we can figure out how to expose this via the dhcp opts API or a
> config value.
>
> If anyone has any concerns with that, please comment on the patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin Benton
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Sean M. Collins<s...@coreitpro.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In the following patch, I had a question about setting the IPXE tag by
> default.
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/172040/
>
> Basically, I'm unsure if we want to set this tag by default. I freely
> admit that I'm not an expert in PXE, but my thinking is that rather than
> enabling it by default, we should use the extra_dhcp_opts API extension
> to set the IPXE tag.
>
>
>
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/api/extra_dhcp_options__extra-dhcp-opt_.html
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Sean M. Collins
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