[ipxe-devel] DHCP_SERVER_IDENTIFIER is not included in the Proxy DHCP offer

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Sun Jun 1 22:57:34 UTC 2014


On 01/06/14 15:59, Wissam Shoukair wrote:
> Is this option tag necessary or its optional in the flow of Proxy DHCP?
>
> I am having an issue when I get the Proxy offer with no 54 option tag
> and only after that I get the regular (non-pxe) dhcp offer. Apparently
> the ipxe  stack ignores this packet.

If iPXE needs to transmit a ProxyDHCP request, it will transmit it to 
the server specified in option 54 in the ProxyDHCPOFFER.  It is 
therefore definitely required by the current logic.

Michael



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