[ipxe-devel] Additional timeout to image fetch

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Thu Aug 2 21:05:04 UTC 2012


On Wednesday 01 Aug 2012 12:24:48 Itay Gazit wrote:
> Does anyone know how can I enlarge the timeout for the image fetch.
> 
> I have some network issues and I would like to change it from {0.5, 1, 2,
> 4, 8} to {0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32}?

Changing DEFAULT_MAX_TIMEOUT in include/ipxe/retry.h would do that.  If you 
want to limit the change to a single protocol, then modifying the timer 
object's max_timeout immediately after timer_init() will work; see net/arp.c.

Michael



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