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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>This pic is before I start pinging the ipxe VM.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=1613 height=613 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CC7915.C432F610"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This pic is after I start pinging the ipxe host.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=1612 height=612 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01CC7915.C432F610"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown@fensystems.co.uk] <br>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:47 AM<br>To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org<br>Cc: Edward Villalovoz<br>Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe and vmware workstation 8 or virtualbox 4.1.2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On Saturday 17 Sep 2011 03:45:35 Edward Villalovoz wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I'm using the latest ipxe and I compiled it in Centos 6. I'm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> basically using ipxe to provide me with a static IP to pxe boot my ESXi 5<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> hosts across a layer 3 network since I do not have DHCP available on the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> other VLANs where my ESXi hosts are located on. My test environment in my<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> office is an ESXi server with multiple subnets trunked into it so that I<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> can have my iPXE host on one VLAN (say 10) and my Centos 6 host on a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> different VLAN (say 20). I have this setup this way so I can test layer 3<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> routing with ipxe. And for the most part, it's working fine except for I<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> have 2 issues.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 1. ipxe passes the command line boot arguments in the format of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ip=<IP>:x:x:x:x etc. Is there a way to have it pass the arguments like<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ip=xxx netmask=xxx gateway=xxx etc? It's my understanding that this new<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> format was changed some time ago, but I need the older format for the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> project I'm working on.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>iPXE doesn't automatically generate either of those formats. Are you sure <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>that information isn't being added by another intermediate bootloader, such as <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>pxelinux?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Using iPXE, then you can generate the argument format you want using something <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>like:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> kernel vmlinuz ip=${net0/ip} netmask=${net0/netmask} gateway=${net0/gateway}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 2. If I use ipxe in a VM on ESXi 4.1 and put a static IP in it<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> "ifopen; set net0/ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xx; set net0/netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; set<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> net0/gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" everything works fine and I can ping the IP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> from another subnet on my network. But on my home network all I have is<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> vmware workstation or virtual box so I'm not testing layer 3, but only<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> layer2. So I'm using the same ipxe.iso file that worked fine in my ESXi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 4.1 environment at home in my vmware/virtualbox environment. My issue is<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> after I start pinging the ipxe host's IP from my Centos 6 host, it<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> response for about 5-8 replies, then it just stops responding to a ping<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> from my Centos 6 host. I don't understand why it works fine on type 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> hypervisors, but not on type 2.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Does the "ifstat" command (http://ipxe.org/cmd/ifstat) show anything of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>interest? (In particular, does the "RX" counter continue to increase even <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>after iPXE stops responding to pings, and do you see any RX errors?)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Michael<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>