[ipxe-devel] ipxe.no-pxedhcp possible in ipxe script?

[Michael Brown]

On Friday 24 Aug 2012 23:30:27 Joshua Jensen wrote:
> I'm booting an ipxe.iso cdrom on remote machines, with this embedded
> script:
> 
> #ipxe
> dhcp
> chain http://server/pxe/ipxe-script-file
> 
> The ipxe-script-file allows me to easily change what I want the
> booting machines to ultimately load, without redistributing new ISO
> files to a very large and geographically dispersed set of clients.
> Its contents are thus:
> 
> set filename http://server/pxe/pxelinux.0
> chain ${filename}
> 
> Here is the issue: I'm having issues with ProxyDHCP server on the
> subnets that some of the booting machines are on.  I don't control
> those DHCP servers, so I can't set "option ipxe.no-pxedhcp 1" on them.
>  They are providing alternative filenames that are screwing up my boot
> process.

From the scripts you've given, it looks as though your boot process should 
already ignore any filename provided by a DHCP or ProxyDHCP server.  In what 
way are the alternative filenames causing problems at present?

Michael