[ipxe-devel] Problem with accessing iPXE via UNDI

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 12 01:26:14 UTC 2013


On 12/07/13 03:01, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> I don't really see the
> pressing need to send back TCP reset when a second prior it would not be
> able to (firmware not bothering) and a couple of seconds later it won't
> be able to (in kernel prior to nic driver) in our usage (and half the
> time, the full OS won't send out a TCP reset due to firewall rules, so
> restoring the iPXE capability isn't something we are overly interested in).

That's a good point.  I've pushed a change to skip sending RST for 
unrecognised connections:

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/18d0818

hpa: this may end up coincidentally fixing your problem too, but if it 
does then there's still something unexplained.

Michael



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