[ipxe-devel] Detecting if server is on the same subnet

Alexandre Blanchette blanalex at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 17:21:03 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 23/01/14 12:10, Alexandre Blanchette wrote:
>
>> Is there a way in iPXE to know if a server/host is on the same subnet as
>> the booting client? The most obvious way would be ping -TTL but there's
>> not such parameter in iPXE's implementation.
>>
>
> Not within the iPXE scripting language.  You could quite easily perform
> this calculation on the server side.
>
> Michael
>

Could this be considered a feature request? ;-)

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Alexandre Blanchette <blanalex at gmail.com>
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