[ipxe-devel] Problem with accessing iPXE via UNDI

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 12 00:11:50 UTC 2013


On 12/07/13 01:20, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> FYI, in the xcat branch, we don't send RST.  In our case it was because
> TCP services pounding randomly on IPs would cause ipxe to get neighbor
> table entries preventing it from talking to intended servers.

How much pounding happens, and does this problem still occur with 
current iPXE?  I put in some changes back in March 2012 to make the 
number of ARP cache entries dynamic, which should alleviate the problem 
(relative to a fixed-size cache).

Michael



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