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

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:04, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 06/29/2011 02:57 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> You should be able to also use an older one that may still have issues
>> with PXELINUX 4.10-pre15.  Configure a VM as something like "Other 2.6
>> Linux" and it should act like a PCnet32 for PXE.
>>
>
> I'd like to know what problems there are...
>
>        -hpa

I'm seeing two, at the moment on 4.10-pre15 in VMware Server using the
PCNet32 and the e1000 NICs.

"LWIP(lwip/src/api/netbuf.c,147): netbuf_ref: invalid buf" after a
previously failed TFTP download.  I'm also seeing another error on
HTTP but I'm still trying to look a little more.

-- 
-Gene