[syslinux] tftp with pxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.10-pre17
Gene Cumm
gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 10:00:44 PST 2012
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 09:13, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
> Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:55:00 -0500:
>> Nothing new in these two PCAP captures. It seems to stop all traffic
>> after the TFTP file not found and the HTTP file not found (which does
>> appear to have a TCP keep-alive then FIN to close the stream). I
>> assume these ran at least a few seconds after the last packet. In the
>> TFTP capture, I was seeing Notebook A do an ARP request on the PXE
>> client with no response but didn't see that in the HTTP capture.
>
> I killed tcpdump too early for the http capture...
>
>> > Let me know what to do and I will test it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance. I'll probably send a binary and/or diff.
>
> I got it booting with a little workaround. My httpd config file has these
> lines now:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule /pxelinux.cfg/.* /pxelinux.cfg/default
>
> This forces the webserver to deliver the default config on first request.
> After that pxelinux loads vesamenu.c32 (and kernel and initrd when selecting)
> without problems.
> --
> Schoene Gruesse
> Chris
Strange. So it only has issues once a file not found occurs. I
presume you did try the precompiled binaries in the
Syslinux-4.10-pre17 archive your first round, right (just in case it's
a build box issue)?
--
-Gene
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