[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.06 released

James Courtier-Dutton James at superbug.demon.co.uk
Tue Aug 26 07:06:27 PDT 2003


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have released SYSLINUX 2.06; it's basically identical to 2.06-pre4.
> 
> I'm doing this now because the bug fixes are so major and because I am 
> not sure I'll be around next week.
> 
>     -hpa
> 
> 
> 2.06 is a bug fix release.
> 
> Changes in 2.06:
<snip>

>         * PXELINUX: Lower the default MTU to 1472 in order to deal
>           with systems with slightly nonstandard MTUs, and PXE
>           stacks which don't defragment correctly.  Unfortunately this
>           is very hard to test dynamically.
> 
Do you have a network trace of this problem happening. Did you check for 
the DF bit being set of not?

Maybe some PXE stacks are doing MTU Path discovery which then means that 
  they should not see any fragmented packets.

Cheers
James




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