Hi, Thank you for great tool beforehand! I just tested a rather new iPXE (cloned git repo) on Dell Latitude D830 connected to a port on Cisco switch configured without option "spanning-tree portfast". That is it takes about 30 seconds to transmit packets over it after bringing link up.
interface GigabitEthernet0/15 description .... switchport access vlan NNN switchport mode access ! The notebook D830 has tg3 ethernet device and it seems to me, that driver brings interface down and up before DHCP -> so another 30 seconds Cisco port is unusable and DHCP request times out. The screen looks: iPXE 1.0.0+ (a712) -- Open Source Network... Features... net0: 00:1c:23:xx:xx:xx using 14e4:1673 on PCI09:00.0 (open) [Link:down, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0] [Link status: Down (http://ipxe.org/err/38086101)] Waiting for link-up on net0... ok DHCP (net0 00:1c:23:xx:xx:xx).................. Connection timed out (http://ipxe.org/4c106035) No more network devices I google out increasing the DHCP_MAX_TIMEOUT value. I tried it and it helps. http://forum.ipxe.org/archive/index.php/thread-413.html So either there should be fixed drivers, that brings interfaces down and up or this DHCP_MAX_TIMEOUT should be icreased? I used gpxe before and it didn't suffer by this. Kindly regards -- Zito _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
