On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > <RANT> > YES. I was unable to build my four nodes using PXEboot, because the damn > thing won't take what it's given, and won't skip to the default target. It > INSISTS (ok, it is in the RFC, but...) on trying its MAC, or maybe it's > the UUID, I disremember, and spends *MINUTES - 4? 5? then tries again by > shortening it by one char, and again, and again, and by the time it tries > default, it's literally FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER, and the tftp/pxe has timed > out. > </RANT> Mark, I haven't faced the slow iterations you're seeing, but I sometimes use a shell script I wrote for naming PXE configuration files on per-IPv4 bases: https://github.com/heinlein/pxehex I don't know if it will help in your case, but I thought I'd pass it along. -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W