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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I’m using the latest ipxe and I compiled it in Centos 6. I’m basically using ipxe to provide me with a static IP to pxe boot my ESXi 5 hosts across a layer 3 network since I do not have DHCP available on the other VLANs where my ESXi hosts are located on. My test environment in my office is an ESXi server with multiple subnets trunked into it so that I can have my iPXE host on one VLAN (say 10) and my Centos 6 host on a different VLAN (say 20). I have this setup this way so I can test layer 3 routing with ipxe. And for the most part, it’s working fine except for I have 2 issues.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>ipxe passes the command line boot arguments in the format of ip=<IP>:x:x:x:x etc. Is there a way to have it pass the arguments like ip=xxx netmask=xxx gateway=xxx etc? It’s my understanding that this new format was changed some time ago, but I need the older format for the project I’m working on.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>If I use ipxe in a VM on ESXi 4.1 and put a static IP in it “ifopen; set net0/ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xx; set net0/netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; set net0/gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” everything works fine and I can ping the IP from another subnet on my network. But on my home network all I have is vmware workstation or virtual box so I’m not testing layer 3, but only layer2. So I’m using the same ipxe.iso file that worked fine in my ESXi 4.1 environment at home in my vmware/virtualbox environment. My issue is after I start pinging the ipxe host’s IP from my Centos 6 host, it response for about 5-8 replies, then it just stops responding to a ping from my Centos 6 host. I don’t understand why it works fine on type 1 hypervisors, but not on type 2.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anything light you can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Ed <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>