[ipxe-devel] chaining http script over VLAN is very slow

Thu Jul 9 19:34:12 UTC 2015

Sorry to clarify. It doesn't work in UEFI mode with an interface that only has tagged VLANs. With the system attached to a port on untagged VLANs it does work. 

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| The ipxe.efi file does not work with this hardware at all seemingly. When
| booting ipxe.efi I get error http://ipxe.org/err/7f11e094

| I've updated all the firmware on the machine included BIOS and UEFI firmware
| and iPXE simply doesn't work with this system in UEFI mode. It does however
| work in BIOS mode and so I've decided to continue on in that mode on this
| particular system until I can do further testing at some other time. If
| there are any tests that you would like me to run I would need to attempt to
| run them by the end of day today.

| ----- Original Message -----

| | Hi James,
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| | Snponly uses the firmwares own driver, just like with UNDI it's not likely
| | that vlan works.
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| | You will probably want to use the full ipxe.efi instead since it have
| | native
| | drivers for many cards, but still with snp/nii fallback.
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| | Without using the native drivers in ipxe, you are in the mearsy of the
| | manufacturers undi/snp/nii stack that is most likely not tested with any
| | kind of vlan.
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| | Regards Christian
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| | On 8 Jul 2015 19:06, "James A. Peltier" < jpeltier at sfu.ca > wrote:
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| | | | | Which NIC are you using and are you UNDI or using the Native driver?
| | | | | UNDI
| | | | | VLAN support is very spotty vendor to vendor within the UNDI stack.
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| | | | | On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:33 PM, James A. Peltier < jpeltier at sfu.ca >
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| | | | | | I have a Dell R730XD which seems to be misbehaving. When booting
| | | | | | off
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| | | | | | VLAN
| | | | | | it seems that the connection is extremely slow. The script that is
| | | | | | embedded
| | | | | | is very simple and after 10 minutes it still hasn't booted to the
| | | | | | menu
| | | | | | system, which is again very small scripts. Any idea what I might be
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| | | | | | do to provide you with more information to troubleshoot it?
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| | | | | | #!ipxe
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| | | | | | echo Hi There! We will be booting from http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/
| | | | | | today.
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| | | | | | echo It is assumed that you have dhcp networking.
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| | | | | | echo Here we go!
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| | | | | | :retry
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| | | | | | vcreate --tag 300 net0
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| | | | | | sleep 5
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| | | | | | ifconf --configurator dhcp net0-300
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| | | | | | boot http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ufds/menu/bootstrap
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| | | | | There is never time enough to do it right, but there always seems to
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| | | | | enough time to do it again.
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| | | | The Dell R730XD comes equipped with a quad port Broadcomm BCM5720 PCI-E
| | | | network adaptor. The system is currently in UEFI mode. I might place it
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| | | | BIOS mode later today to see if it behaves any differently, but
| | | | ultimately
| | | | I'd rather have it in UEFI mode.
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| | | | James A. Peltier
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| | | Forgot to mention that I am using snponly.efi for the driver.
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| | | James A. Peltier
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| James A. Peltier
| IT Services - Research Computing Group
| Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
| Phone : 604-365-6432
| Fax : 778-782-3045
| E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
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James A. Peltier 
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Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus 
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