[syslinux] problems with tftp-hpa timing out.

James S. Martin james.martin at digex.com
Mon Feb 25 12:30:11 PST 2002


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> James S. Martin wrote:
> 
>>
>> The funny thing is, there is only one client, and that client only 
>> works when connecting from network A to network B.  We are booting 
>> with Intel Boot Agent Version 3.0.05, PXE 2.0 build 083.  I will try 
>> the -r blksize.  If that does work, it would seem to be something 
>> configured on the routers/switches that would let the blksize through 
>> on one network, but not on the other.  I'll keep you posted, thanks.
>>
> 
> 
> That's very odd.  I don't know of any problems with that particular PXE 
> stack, in fact, in all my tests it has been very well behaved.
> 
>     -hpa
> 
> 

After all this debugging, it turns out one of the cards on the switch 
was flaking out... Once it was replaced, everything was ok.  Good thing 
the card completely failed or I would be trying to figure it out for 
weeks :).

James




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