[syslinux] Strange behavior

[Roy Marantz]

I'd like to apologize for the tone of my message.  If you are generous,
chalk it up to being caused by my frustration with this issue.

I've done more testing and I agree with you that the issue is due to
something in the networks involved in my setup.  I've tried using a VM on
other networks and had everything work as expected.  I will be looking into
that with our networking group.

Sorry to have wasted your time and I really do appreciate all the time and
effort you put into this.

I do believe that a nice enhancement to the open file (or file download
code) would be for it to not try fallback extensions when a know extension
is specified as part of the filename or at least strip the known extension
first.  If I had an idea where to implement such a change I would send in a
patch for that change.

I'd appreciate hearing any suggestions for how to eliminate any of the
downloads (gpxelinux, menu.pl, menu.c32, menu.pl) that my current procedure
uses.  I know that I can tell Vmware to use gpxelinux.0 in place of it
native pxe code, but I need to check on the supportability of that.  I.e.
Will Vmware balk at supporting such a change.  I was hoping to eliminate the
2nd menu.pl download.

Again, thanks for all you help.
Roy