[ipxe-devel] Mac Mini EFI firmware breaks iPXE TFTP

[Hilko Bengen]

* Michael Brown:

>> iPXE is loaded via TFTP (configuration below). At the moment I suspect
>> that some part of the Mac's firmware is still interacting with the
>> network adapter and thus interferes with iPXE's usage of the SNP API.
>> 
>> Workaround: Setting the start value of try_port in udp_bind() to
>> something higher than 1023 resolved the issue here, but this is not a
>> proper fix.
>
> How much higher than 1023?

Scratch that. I just retried and noticed that those ICMP messages are
still sent.

> Does the same problem occur if you use a TCP-based protocol such as
> HTTP instead of TFTP?

HTTP works, at least I was able to download a large file.

Cheers, 
-Hilko