[ipxe-devel] Additional timeout to image fetch

[mwhelton at gmail.com]

Itay,

Sounds like "portfast" is interfering...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/technologies_tech_note09186a008009482f.shtml

Best,

Matt

On , Itay Gazit <itaygazit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Michael,

> I have another timeout question, we found a CISCO switch where the  
> spanning tree does not forward packets for almost 1min.

> I would like to change the DHCP timeout to try 0.5,1,2,4,8,16,32, and few  
> seconds after quit.



> Thanks,

> Itay

> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>  
> wrote:


> On Wednesday 01 Aug 2012 12:24:48 Itay Gazit wrote:




> > Does anyone know how can I enlarge the timeout for the image fetch.


> >


> > I have some network issues and I would like to change it from {0.5, 1,  
> 2,


> > 4, 8} to {0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32}?







> Changing DEFAULT_MAX_TIMEOUT in include/ipxe/retry.h would do that. If you


> want to limit the change to a single protocol, then modifying the timer


> object's max_timeout immediately after timer_init() will work; see  
> net/arp.c.





> Michael








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