[syslinux] which should I use: TIMEOUT, ONTIMEOUT, or ONERROR ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Anthony.Golia at morganstanley.com wrote:
> on second thought, I don't think any of these options will help that case 
> since, I think, the problem is that the pxelinux binary gets to the 
> booting client but the config doesn't.  I guess it's cause the retries and 
> timeouts of the PXE firmware in the NIC/BIOS are more forgiving than that 
> (PKT_RETRY and PKT_TIMEOUT) of pxelinux?

Entirely possible.  In particular, if the firmware doesn't do 
exponential backoff as it should, it's easy to crowd out a well-behaving 
client like PXELINUX.

	-hpa