Location of Force_PXE_Enable token on various Dell servers

Plead Insanity jay-smb at g-cipher.net
Wed Aug 1 15:33:37 CDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:23:25PM -0500, Jordan_Hargrave at Dell.com wrote:
> Try using token 0x4022 for enabled and 4023 for disabled.
> 
> --jordan hargrave
> Dell Enterprise Linux Engineering
> 


Hi,

Thanks for the response.

I did notice that token and it does seem to be present on all the
hardware I tested, but it has the unfortunate side effect of
leaving the system in PXE first mode, which is a potential security
vulnerability on a shared network.  

I would much rather utilize the PXE *once* functionality as it would
ensure that the system is not left in a potentially vulnerable state.


Regards,

-Jay



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