Seconds field of DHCP Discover message not set?

[Kenton Cabiness]

I have a KVM sytem (RHEL6.1, qemu-0.12.1.2, seabios-0.6.1.2, gpxe-0.9.7,
virtio bridge interfaces) where we are trying to PXE boot the guest OS.

It does not appear that the seconds field of the DHCP Discover message
is being incremented (it is always set to 0). The DHCP server is not
connected locally and the DHCP request is not being forwarded to the IP
helper device (DHCP server) unless the forward delay time is set to 0 on
the local switch (Omni-switch compares this delay time to the seconds
field of the DHCP request and only forwards the request if the seconds
field is >= the delay time).

Depending upon the configuration of the other machines in this local
network, there may or may not be a DHCP server active to service this
system. We would like the local server to reply if it is configured, or
else have it forward to the higher level server (which the delay timer
works nicely for).

I have seen this problem on an older version of gPXE, and I have tried
the newest version (1.0.1), and am seeing the issue in all of the versions.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks,
Kenton Cabiness