Re: Re[2]: [Etherboot-developers] http/dns

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>I think there are even dhcp options that could be used for that.
>It should be quite reasonable to either set the proxy to the supplied
>address (what about the port, then?) or (though this would be pain,
>probably) ask a www server on port 80 for a proxy.pac if this option
>is set in local dhcp server. I wonder what it originally way thought
>for - should clients really only contact to one,2,..5.. specified http
>server? Does this RFC come from Cuba? :-)

Well you'd have to convince the site admin to add option 72 to the DHCP
server (if it's possible at all with some DHCP servers, e.g. Windoze may
not support it), and it still doesn't solve the port problem. So you
might as well do the second ugly thing and that is hardwire the proxy
into the image with a #define, which of course means the image is only
usable as long as the web server and proxy don't change name/address or
port.