[syslinux] gpxelinux.0 and slow HTTP performance on VMware ESX
Roy Marantz
roy.marantz at vonage.com
Thu Dec 1 13:04:13 PST 2011
Can you suggest a work around for the issue which doesn't involve building
any software? I.e. Is the a version of iPXE that works with a version of
pxelinux.0 and menu.0?
Thanks.
Roy
On 11/29/11 1:34 AM, "lstraath" <lstraath at lynxsoft.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found this message in your online mail archive, i have found the same
> problem and did some research in the past on this. Maybe you would be
> interested to know it is a problem on any virtualisation product not just ESX.
> Second it is a problem in gPXE that you embedded in gPXElinux. The problem was
> build in gPXE after version 0.97 so any gPXElinux build a newer version has
> this problem. I have tested a lot of hardware also and noticed it 1 or 2 times
> on a specific nic also however i did forget which machine had the same problem
> as the virtual machines.
>
> I would like to point out that the gPXE git seems to be abandoned by it's
> developers because of an argument with the person that owns the domain names
> and that they continued the work under an new name iPXE. Maybe it would be a
> good idea to use iPXE and let the next version be iPXElinux. Hopefully they
> already fixed this bug also.
>
> regards,
>
> Leon Straathof.
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