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Bug #7987

loader: pxeboot should avoid unnecessary DHCP request

Added by Toomas Soome almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Toomas Soome
Category:
bootloader
Start date:
2017-03-20
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage

Description

FreeBSD update: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=r314948

Try to extract the RFC1048 data from PXE. If we get enough info we can skip
the bootp(). It removes unnecessary DHCP request from pxeloader.

History

#1

Updated by Toomas Soome almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Pending RTI
#2

Updated by Electric Monk almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Pending RTI to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100

git commit 7ee17e4e3475b9853902250ffd15561b2ab6780e

commit  7ee17e4e3475b9853902250ffd15561b2ab6780e
Author: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Date:   2017-04-02T23:35:11.000Z

    7987 loader: pxeboot should avoid unnecessary DHCP request
    Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
    Reviewed by: Jason King <jason.brian.king@gmail.com>
    Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
    Reviewed by: Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org>
    Approved by: Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross@gmail.com>

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