[syslinux] gpxelinux.0 and slow HTTP performance on VMware ESX VM

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/29/2011 11:57 AM, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> 
> The core problem is that HTTP transfers by gpxelinux.0 are very slow. Sadly this
> problem seems to be somehow related to our VMware ESX environment and I am not
> able to pin the problem down.
> 

The requirement for gpxelinux.0 to support HTTP transfers is going to be
dropped in Syslinux 4.10, which is now on the release track.  Could you
test out pxelinux.0 (*not* gpxelinux.0) from Syslinux 4.10-pre15 and see
if you have any problems?

Other than that, it would be good to get a package trace
(tcpdump/wireshark).

	-hpa