On 9/16/22 18:06, Numan Siddique wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 3:46 PM Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> From: Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasago...@gmail.com> >> >> In order to PXE boot a baremetal server using the OVN DHCP server we >> need to allow users to set the "next-server" (siaddr) [0] field in the >> DHCP header. >> >> While investigating this issue by comparing the DHCPOFFER and DHCPACK >> packets sent my dnsmasq and OVN we saw that the "next-server" field >> was the problem for OVN, without it PXE booting was timing out while >> fetching the iPXE image from the TFTP server (see the bugzilla ticket >> below for reference). >> >> To confirm this problem we created a bogus patch hardcoding the TFTP >> address in the siaddr of the DHCP header (see the discussion in the >> maillist below) and with this in place we were able to deploy a >> baremetal node using the OVN DHCP end-to-end. >> >> This patch is a proper implementation that creates a new DHCP >> configuration option called "next_server" to allow users to set this >> field dynamically. This patch uses the DHCP code 253 which is a unsed >> code for DHCP specification as this is not a normal DHCP option but a >> special use case in OVN. >> >> [0] >> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/9dd3031d2e0e9597449e95428320ccaaff7d8b3d/lib/dhcp.h#L42 >> >> Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083629 >> Reported-at: >> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2022-May/051821.html >> Signed-off-by: Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasago...@gmail.com> >> Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <num...@ovn.org> >> (cherry picked from commit 0057cde2a64749bd2dbbaff525f7a1edccbd9c8a) >> Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com> > > Is this patch still not merged to OVN 22.03 ? Since it already has > all the Acks and merged in the main branch. I think you can go ahead > and apply it. > > +1 from me.
Applied to branch-22.03. > > Thanks > Numan > Thanks, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
