[ipxe-devel] Curious routing problem with iPXE

[Lee Bradshaw]

No - I run Windows 7, which doesn't use SanBoot. The support is native to
the OS.

Lee.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown at fensystems.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, 25 February 2011 11:53 AM
To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Cc: Lee Bradshaw
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Curious routing problem with iPXE

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