[syslinux] Odd problem with pxelinux
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 15 10:06:12 PDT 2003
Josef Siemes wrote:
>
> The problem is: The server has its arp table overflown. Since pxelinux on the
> pxe rom is somewhat limited I think it doesn't answer to arp requests
> while downloading a file. ( hpa, can you confirm this?)
>
No, that's not true... unless your PXE stack is broken, which certainly
is quite possible (most of them are in one way or another.)
What *is* true is that PXELINUX will currently not answer ARP requests
while sitting at the command prompt.
-hpa
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