Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: 3c900-tpo hang after DHCPOFFER

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ke...@et... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >Is anyone else getting the feeling we might want to output a message 
> >saying:
> >
> >    DHCP response received from xx.xx.xx.xx but no filename specified, 
> >ignored.
> 
> I'm in two minds about this. On one hand it might help show the problem,
> but on the other hand it might take Etherboot's attention away from an
> offer which is usable, plus it might get annoying in networks where it's
> expected that there will be bogus offers. There are a whole bunch of
> difficulties that must be overcome in setting up a diskless boot, such
> as getting DHCP right, TFTP right, etc and this is only one problem. I'm
> inclined to think a better newbie document would do more good. Perhaps
> we should collaborate with LTSP in writing such a document which can be
> published by both projects.

One thing we can do is instead of printing a dot we can print
another character like 'D'.  Not enough text to cause us problems
but enough to indicate that etherboot has received a certain
type of packet.

Eric