Issued:

2015-07-22

Updated:

2015-07-22

RHEA-2015:1368 - gpxe enhancement update

Synopsis

gpxe enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated gpxe packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The gpxe package provides gPXE, an open source Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) implementation and boot loader.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• This update corrects the timeout values used by gPXE to conform to RFC 2131 and the PXE specification. (BZ#968474)

Users of gpxe are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• gpxe-0.9.7-6.14.el6.src.rpm
• gpxe-bootimgs-0.9.7-6.14.el6.noarch.rpm
• gpxe-roms-0.9.7-6.14.el6.noarch.rpm
• gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.14.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1206042

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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