[openstack-dev] [Neutron][Ironic] Setting IPXE tag for dnsmasq

Miguel Angel Ajo mangelajo at redhat.com
Fri Jun 19 16:21:40 UTC 2015


What does iPXE do exactly?,

What are the implications of having this enabled by default?

Cheers,
Miguel Ángel

Kevin Benton wrote:
>
> I'd like to resurrect this thread. The patch has been sitting for quite a
> while.
>
> Since it doesn't modify the responses by default of DHCP messages, I'm
> inclined to just let it merge for now as a dnsmasq-specific change. Then
> maybe later we can figure out how to expose this via the dhcp opts API 
> or a
> config value.
>
> If anyone has any concerns with that, please comment on the patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin Benton
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Sean M. Collins<sean at coreitpro.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the following patch, I had a question about setting the IPXE tag by
>> default.
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/172040/
>>
>> Basically, I'm unsure if we want to set this tag by default. I freely
>> admit that I'm not an expert in PXE, but my thinking is that rather than
>> enabling it by default, we should use the extra_dhcp_opts API extension
>> to set the IPXE tag.
>>
>>
>> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/api/extra_dhcp_options__extra-dhcp-opt_.html
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Sean M. Collins
>>
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