[syslinux] PXELinux can't load the config file?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ciprian Paunescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a cluster of PCs, and I want to
> boot them from an SGI IRIX machine.
> The PCs use Supermicro XEON MB, with dual GigE built in.
> They have Intel Boot Agent GE v 1.1.09 and PXE 2.1 (083).
> 
> I have DHCP and TFTP on the IRIX machine, pxelinux.0
> loads, but it can't load the configuration file?
> tftp on the host tries to send the file, but data
> transfers do not receive ACKs.
> I got tftp-hpa to compile on the IRIX box, but it doesn't 
> work any better. Any ideeas on what is wrong, and
> how can I fix it?

Looks like the PXE stack has a problem with UDP receive -- the transmit
side obviously works.  I would hunt for a firmware upgrade; it sounds
like they have some pretty ancient PXE stack.

	-hpa