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[efi] Extract basic network settings from loaded image device path
The UEFI HTTP boot mechanism is extraordinarily badly designed, even by the standards of the UEFI specification in general. It has the symptoms of a feature that has been designed entirely in terms of user stories, without any consideration at all being given to the underlying technical architecture. It does work, provided that you are doing precisely and only what was envisioned by the product owner. If you want to try anything outside the bounds of the product owner's extremely limited imagination, then you are almost certainly about to enter a world of pain. As one very minor example of this: the cached DHCP packet is not available when using HTTP boot. The UEFI HTTP boot code does perform DHCP, but it pointlessly and unhelpfully throws away the DHCP packet and trashes the network interface configuration before handing over to the downloaded executable. Work around this imbecility by parsing and applying the few network configuration settings that are persisted into the loaded image's device path. This is limited to very basic information such as the IP address, gateway address, and DNS server address, but it does at least provide enough for a functional routing table. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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