server: eepro100, dhcpd3, atftpd client: eepro100
If I slow down the network speed from the server to the client, e.g. to below 500KB/s the transfer of a huge initrd (32MB in my case) works every time. If I dont slow down the network speed this fails after 3 to 10 MB in 100%. If I set the clients MAC adress statically in the servers ARP-Table, the transfer works in 100%, in fast and in slowed down transfer. (see tcpdump's below). Why is this? This looks to be worth inspecting to my eyes. In case where it stops a nic.poll function call never returns. You can find a complete tcpdump with a static arp table on the server here: (~33MB) http://134.93.168.49/~reiffert/tcpdump.static-arp.boot.gz and a tcpdump with a nonstatic arp table here: (~3MB) http://134.93.168.49/~reiffert/tcpdump.boot.gz My recent patch you will find here, which applies against grub-0.95: (~500KB) http://134.93.168.49/~reiffert/grub-0.95.undi.patch.gz - It only hunts for the eepro100 PXE (for now). - thinned out etherboot stuff nobody wants here (like etherboot_printf, ... etc. ) - I've added progress bar (a "." every 5%) - added a hexdump function for dumping memory. If you want to dump the nic.poll assembler code #define HEXDUMP_POLL 1 in nic.c If you want to dump the complete memory #define HEXDUMP_COMP 1 in fsys_tftp.c You can fetch the memory dump on your serial console with screen -L -l /dev/ttyS0 115200 Dont forget to set serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 in menu.lst My configure settings: ./configure --enable-diskless --enable-undi --disable-ext2fs --disable-fat --disable-ffs --disable-ufs2 --disable-minix --disable-reiserfs --disable-vstafs --disable-jfs --disable-xfs --disable-iso9660 --disable-gunzip --disable-md5-password --disable-hercules You can find my menu.lst here: http://134.93.168.49/~reiffert/menu.lst You can find my initrd here: (~33MB) http://134.93.168.49/~reiffert/root.bin And the tftpboot.img here: (~1MB) http://134.93.168.49/~reiffert/tftpboot.img Help. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
