Tiny PXE Server (Install) 1.0.0.22

I have been playing with pxe booting for a while, first starting with pxelinux, then gpxe and lately with ipxe.

I am mostly a windows user and as an IT often needs a quick (=no install) and portable (=run from USB) dhcp server including a tftp server and a http server offering me then pxe booting. I could use tftp32 or serva but i like to make my own tools and these 2 were missing some features here and there.

So here comes a small portable dhcp server including a tftp and a http server.

This is freeware (and will always be), should be opensource and the unique here idea is to share and contribute.

• dhcp daemon supports an alternative filename based on the user-class thus enabling chainloading (gpxe->pxelinux, ipxe->script, etc), and also support settings dhcp options (which can then be used by your boot loader)
• tftp daemon supports tsize and blksize commands.
• http daemon support head, range (mandatory for ipxe sanboot options) and over 2gb iso.
• new in version 1.0.0.7 : BINL (RIS and WDS) support
• new in version 1.0.0.10 : DNS daemon
• new in version 1.0.0.14 : ProxyDHCP option

The root home of tftp and http is the folder where you main pxe loader sits. I put all my iso files in a sub folder called images. I put all my wim files in a sub folder called sources. I put all my other loaders, in case I want to chain load, in next to my main loader (bootmgr, pxelinux, gpxe, grldr, etc)

In the attached screenshot, i load ipxe then chainloads a script (menu.ipxe). In the script 3 different methods : the classic memdisk, a newer approach with sanboot and a new kid on the block wimboot.

More info about these loading methods here :

• http://www.syslinux….dex.php/MEMDISK
• http://ipxe.org/cmd/sanboot
• http://ipxe.org/wimboot

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