[syslinux] Syslinux 4.04 gpxelinux.0 http performance problem with VMware VMs

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:38:37PM -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Gene,
> >>>
> >>> I suspect this is related to the lwip update... any chance you might be
> >>> able to look at it?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> --Gene
> >
> > First glance shows the precompiled 4.10-pre22 pxelinux.0 binary as
> > functional on one VMware platform loading when config from TFTP within
> > the local NAT vmnet.
> >
> > Could I get more details?  Still 1 subnet as before?  All in 1 vSwitch
> > or does it go out to a physical network?  Is your config on TFTP or
> > HTTP (with one of the DHCP options)?  Which vNIC?  VMXNET3 still?
> > Tried e1000/e1000e?  What VMware product is your host system running?
> > Build number would be nice.
> 
> Also where did you obtain this build from?  Are you using the
> precompiled binaries in the binary/source distribution archive on
> kernel.org?  I've tried loading some files and did see some failure
> but not with the debug-like message you saw.
> 

It's the el6 x86_64 rpm:
http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/repoforge-testing-x86_64/syslinux-4.10-0.pre22.el6.rft.x86_64.rpm.html

I can also try the binaries from kernel.org.

-- Pasi