[ipxe-devel] Issue with TFTP Windows

Michael Brunetti Michael.Brunetti at akunacapital.com
Wed May 7 15:39:01 UTC 2014


Good morning,

I have found an issue with windows TFTP loading an WDS image (wdsnbp.com).   It appears that the older version of IPXE included a "strip initial" function to make windows TFTP work with IPXE.  The newest version of source does not include this function.  I have added the old tftp.c (not sure of the date of download) file to the new source(pulled today) and rebuild the undionly.pxe binary and everything started working again.

#!ipxe
prompt --key 0x02 --timeout 5000 Press Ctrl-B for the iPXE command line... && shell ||
ifconf
dhcp
set net0
next-server 10.132.99.61
chain tftp://ch1infwds01.akunacapital.local/boot\\x64\\wdsnbp.com

Please let us know if we are using the incorrect syntax or if this should be included in the .c file.

Thanks,

Mike Brunetti


Output of a diff on the two files (tftp.c = Old source, tftp.c.bak = current source)
diff tftp.c tftp.c.bak
325a326
>       const char *path = tftp->uri->path;
327d327
<       const char *path;
331,342d330
<
<       /* Strip initial '/' if present.  If we were opened via the
<        * URI interface, then there will be an initial '/', since a
<        * full tftp:// URI provides no way to specify a non-absolute
<        * path.  However, many TFTP servers (particularly Windows
<        * TFTP servers) complain about having an initial '/', and it
<        * violates user expectations to have a '/' silently added to
<        * the DHCP-specified filename.
<        */
<       path = tftp->uri->path;
<       if ( *path == '/' )
<               path++;

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