[ipxe-devel] DHCP failing on Intel 82579V Gigabit [8086:1503] after PXE boot]

[Richard Moore]

On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:28 +0100, Robin Smidsrød wrote:

> On 12.11.2012 09:47, Richard Moore wrote:
> > Attached are the two dumps requested from Robin. 
> > 
> > [The laptop is directly wired to my machine running dnsmasq so only
> > traffic between them both is there i.e. left it unfiltered] 
> 
> Perfect setup. Very easy to debug. :)
> 
> > Version from Nov 2nd (of git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git) with no
> > modifications to source.
> > 
> > I did have a script embedded in the .lkrn to speedup testing which just
> > sets dhcp options 209/210 and pulls pxelinux.0 down.
> 
> I notice the .lkrn pulls down pxelinux.0 on the first DHCP request,
> which is consistent with a chainloading setup. How do you load it? From
> USB or CD using Grub or ISOLINUX? You are aware of ipxe.usb and ipxe.iso
> that are specifically designed for that purpose? Just want to make sure
> I understand your setup correctly.
> 


yes it is chainloaded from extlinux(syslinux), from my bootable utils 
USB stick that does lots of other things too :)


> One question: Any particular reason you're using undionly.kkpxe instead
> of undionly.kpxe? The .kkpxe version is usually only used in cases where
> people have buggy BIOSes.
> 


Sorry just happened to have been testing with kkpxe and forgot to change
it to kpxe, 
but makes no difference in this case. It is now back to kpxe.


> It does seem like you're having problems receiving packets when using
> undionly.kkpxe. Adding DEBUG=undinet to the make command-line might
> reveal some further information about what's happening to those packets.
> You might have to enable serial debugging to get them, or use a camera
> to take a picture of the screen.
> 


sorry I need a new phone, but I think it is legible enough :)




> Hopefully with this information someone else can chime in with some
> suggestions on what might be wrong...
> 
> -- Robin


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