[ipxe-devel] chaining http script over VLAN is very slow

[James A. Peltier]

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| ----- Original Message -----

| | Which NIC are you using and are you UNDI or using the Native driver? UNDI
| | VLAN support is very spotty vendor to vendor within the UNDI stack.
| 

| | On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:33 PM, James A. Peltier < jpeltier at sfu.ca > wrote:
| 

| | | I have a Dell R730XD which seems to be misbehaving. When booting off a
| | | VLAN
| | | it seems that the connection is extremely slow. The script that is
| | | embedded
| | | is very simple and after 10 minutes it still hasn't booted to the menu
| | | system, which is again very small scripts. Any idea what I might be able
| | | to
| | | do to provide you with more information to troubleshoot it?
| | 
| 

| | | #!ipxe
| | 
| 

| | | echo Hi There! We will be booting from http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ today.
| | 
| 
| | | echo It is assumed that you have dhcp networking.
| | 
| 
| | | echo Here we go!
| | 
| 

| | | :retry
| | 
| 
| | | vcreate --tag 300 net0
| | 
| 
| | | sleep 5
| | 
| 
| | | ifconf --configurator dhcp net0-300
| | 
| 
| | | boot http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ufds/menu/bootstrap
| | 
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| | | James A. Peltier
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| | --
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| | There is never time enough to do it right, but there always seems to be
| | enough time to do it again.
| 

| The Dell R730XD comes equipped with a quad port Broadcomm BCM5720 PCI-E
| network adaptor. The system is currently in UEFI mode. I might place it in
| BIOS mode later today to see if it behaves any differently, but ultimately
| I'd rather have it in UEFI mode.

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| James A. Peltier
| IT Services - Research Computing Group
| Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
| Phone : 604-365-6432
| Fax : 778-782-3045
| E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
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Forgot to mention that I am using snponly.efi for the driver. 

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James A. Peltier 
IT Services - Research Computing Group 
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus 
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