[ipxe-devel] [syslinux] PATCH: Let "dhcp" command iterate over interfaces like autoboot()

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 23 01:44:56 UTC 2010


On Friday 23 Jul 2010 02:30:49 Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> 2) If given the single parameter "any" as an interface name, iterate
> over all known interfaces in a manner similar to autoboot():

Personally I'd prefer a "-a"/"--all" option rather than a magic interface name 
"any".

> I think this manages to preserve the syntax of the existing "dhcp"
> command while making the magic of autoboot available to gpxe scripts.
> Please let me know if you have any comments.  This code has only had
> limited testing, and I'm not terribly familiar with the gPXE code
> base.  Please excuse any stylistic problems; I'd be happy to fix
> anything that needs fixing.

I'm happy to clean it up and apply it to iPXE.  Does anyone have any 
objections to using "-a" instead of "any"?

Michael



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