[ipxe-devel] Variable for proxy DHCP server address?

[Floris Bos / Maxnet]

On 03/27/2012 12:53 AM, Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote:
> Is there any way to determinate the IP-address of the proxy DHCP/TFTP 
> server that was used when booting iPXE in an ipxe script?
>
>
> Tried (with undionly.kkpxe):
>
> ==
> set use-cached 1
> dhcp
> show next-server
> ==
>
> But it shows me the IP of the regular DHCP server, not the TFTP/proxy 
> dhcp server (running dnsmasq) which I'm looking for. 

Some more information:

Syslinux's Pxelinux does display the correct IP address.


I suspect iPXE's behavior of providing the wrong cached next-server 
address when a proxy DHCP server is used in addition to a regular DHCP 
server, is caused by it only fetching the cached DHCP ack packet in 
src/arch/i386/interface/pxeparent/pxeparent_dhcp.c:

===
     /* Obtain cached DHCP packet */
     memset ( &get_cached_info, 0, sizeof ( get_cached_info ) );
     get_cached_info.PacketType = PXENV_PACKET_TYPE_DHCP_ACK;

     if ( ( rc = pxeparent_call ( undi->entry, PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO,
&get_cached_info,
                      sizeof ( get_cached_info ) ) ) != 0 ) {
         DBG ( "PXEDHCP GET_CACHED_INFO failed: %s\n", strerror ( rc ) );
         return;
     }
===

While Pxelinux not only fetches and parses the cached 
PXENV_PACKET_TYPE_DHCP_ACK (2) but also PXENV_PACKET_TYPE_CACHED_REPLY (3)

===
     /*
      * Get the BOOTP/DHCP packet that brought us file (and an IP
      * address). This lives in the DHCPACK packet (query info 2)
      */
     pkt_len = pxe_get_cached_info(2);
     parse_dhcp(pkt_len);
     /*
      * Save away MAC address (assume this is in query info 2. If this
      * turns out to be problematic it might be better getting it from
      * the query info 1 packet
      */
     MAC_len = bp->hardlen > 16 ? 0 : bp->hardlen;
     MAC_type = bp->hardware;
     memcpy(MAC, bp->macaddr, MAC_len);

     /*
      * Get the boot file and other info. This lives in the CACHED_REPLY
      * packet (query info 3)
      */
     pkt_len = pxe_get_cached_info(3);
     parse_dhcp(pkt_len);
     printf("\n");
===


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos