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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/17/2012 02:58 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> OK,
>> but I have still no issues.
>> I am in the testing process of switching from gpxe to pxe over http.
>> We have a lot of Optiplex 760 and other newer Dell PCs and laptops to
>> process, so i have also the possibilty ( or the need) of investigation.
> 
> So the first and only two packets that I see come in are a broadcast
> ARP packet and an ARP reply for the local gateway.  After this, no
> other received packets get into the stack.  It looks like the next
> thing that may be best is to force the polling as it seems impossible
> to reliably query the PXE stack's status.
> 

Except that there are platforms where polling reliably hangs the
system...  we might want to check with what iPXE does on these platforms.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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