[ipxe-devel] DHCP problems on Intel 82567LM

[Michael Brown]

On 02/05/14 11:01, Christian Hesse wrote:
>> Is the datapath broken in both directions?
>
> No. The Dell notebook (the one acting as client and having the problem)
> receives packets. I can not see a single ethernet frame on the network sent
> from the notebook.
>
>> Are you able to transmit ARP
>> requests or broadcast pings, or observe received data via tcpdump?
>
> tcpdump receives all types of packets on the notebook.

If you try sending a large number of packets (e.g. using arping or a 
broadcast ping: anything that won't wait for a reply before sending out 
the next packet) then what happens to the TX packet counts and error 
counts reported by ifconfig?

Does tcpdump running on the notebook see its own transmitted packets?

> Did a warm reboot and tried to boot via UNDI. BIOS reported:
>
>> PXE-E05: The LAN adapter's configuration is corupted or has not been
>> initialized. The Boot agent cannot continue.
>
> Though this is not reproducible. After a cold reboot everything ist just fine
> again.

Good to know, but it's probably going to be easier to try to diagnose 
the problem from within Linux first.

Michael