[syslinux] PXELINUX 4.10-pre17 and newer Dell OptiPlex/Latitude/Precision

[Gene Cumm]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 08:07, Christoph Hanle
<christoph.hanle at leinpfad.de> wrote:
> On 19.01.2012 23:23 Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 09:57, Gene Cumm<gene.cumm at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Shantanu, let's continue here.
>>>
>>> You first noticed this on a Dell OptiPlex 755.  I think it covers all
>>> Dell
>>> OptiPlex/Latitude/Precision models that are PCIe based with Intel LoM
>>> (LAN
>>> on motherboard) utilizing the BIOS PXE OROM, based on the similarity of
>>> these systems.  The symptoms are that PXELINUX requests
>>> pxelinux.cfg/<UUID>
>>> by TFTP (but it might not strictly be a TFTP issue) when not on the same
>>> subnet, responses are sent back but PXELINUX doesn't receive these
>>> packets.
>>> PXELINUX also doesn't respond to ICMP echo (ping) or ARP requests but
>>> repeatedly sends ARP requests for the gateway, as if it doesn't receive
>>> the
>>> replies.  When on the same subnet, Shantanu reports that it seems to hang
>>> on
>>> the request of pxelinux.cfg/default.
>>>
>>> I also tried 4.10-pre13 to no avail.
>>>
>>> This makes me think it goes deaf/ignorant for some reason.  My next tests
>>> are TFTP on same subnet, HTTP on same and different subnets then a debug
>>> build with the serial port.
>>
>>
>> Sorry, reversed it.  OptiPlex 960 was the client, not 755.  755 seems
>> to work nicely with A16, A17, A19, A20 and A21.
>>
>> I have it failing on an OptiPlex 760 and a few other systems.
>>
> Hi Gene,
> have you found any news about this issue ?
> and can you please send me a list of systems which cause the trouble in your
> environment.
>
> bye
> Christoph

Unfortunately, nothing yet.  The issues I've noticed appear to be
different from yours but troubleshooting is likely to start the same
way.

-- 
-Gene