2014-09-20 13:20 GMT+02:00 Stefan Baur <newsgroups.ma...@stefanbaur.de>:

> Am 20.09.2014 um 13:17 schrieb Daniel Lindgren:
>
> > That's fine if you always boot on the same LAN as the HTTP server. We
> > have about 60 LAN:s with clients. The fetch parameter uses a fixed URL,
> > the squashfs file would have to be fetched from the same server no
> > matter where the client is booted, which means file transfer over WAN in
> > most cases.
> >
> > iPXE can dynamically adapt the address to the current LAN, which means
> > that the initrd file is always transferred over LAN.
>
> Yes, and you can use the same variable to specify the path to the
> download server for the squashfs image.  So where is your problem?
> *confused look*
>
>
How? iPXE changes DHCP option 209 and 210 to use HTTP instead of TFTP and
points to the local server.

Can the "fetch" parameter be sent as a DHCP option?

Cheers,
Daniel

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