[ipxe-devel] Tftp transfer speed issues

Robin Smidsrød robin at smidsrod.no
Tue Aug 7 10:39:48 UTC 2012


On 07.08.2012 11:22, Alpar Torok wrote:
> I saw an issue with PXE booting winpe with bootmgr.exe over tftp.
> The wim image takes a lot of time to load. With iPXE it takes about 7
> minutes,
> while with pxelinux.0  it loads in about 2,  on the same setup.
> gPXE takes way more, 30 minutes!
> 
> Does anybody have a clue on why that  is?
> Is this a known issue/ missing feature that pxelinux has ?

Have you been using the most recent checkout from git when building the
iPXE binary? The last few weeks have seen some substantial TCP/IP
improvements.

-- Robin




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