[ipxe-devel] Curious routing problem with iPXE

[Michael Brown]

On Thursday 10 Feb 2011 19:59:49 Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> I found late last night that my workaround didn't always work around the
> problem; Windows doesn't always take the static route as its first
> preference.
> 
> But there's always another way to flay a feline, and I enabled routing on
> the server and configured DHCP to hand out the server's address as the
> gateway for iPXE requests from the client. My unnecessary hop is now
>  through an 8 core server with two teamed 1Gb NIC's when browsing the
>  internet, rather than through a cheap ADSL modem on a 100Mb segment when
>  accessing my disks. You certainly notice the difference.
> 
> The iBFT approach sounds interesting. Anything that will make it 'just
>  work' will always get my vote.

I've pushed out sanbootconf-0.9.9:

  http://git.ipxe.org/release/sanbootconf/sanbootconf-0.9.9.zip

which attempts to fiddle the iBFT as necessary.  Any chance you could test this 
with your DHCP server configured to hand out the "real" gateway address, and 
see if it fixes the problem?

Thanks,

Michael