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

[Gene Cumm]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 19:54, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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

Agreed.  I was more looking at 1 test for this hardware.

-- 
-Gene