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

[James A. Peltier]

Further to this I have tried the same operation while running the machine in UEFI mode and it does work there. I was able to boot and install successfully. After installing the OS we used Dell Open Manage to update all of the machine devices and there was a UEFI update applied. I'll be attempting to switch back to UEFI mode later today and will report back any process 

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| | | 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.
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| | | On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:33 PM, James A. Peltier < jpeltier at sfu.ca >
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| | | | 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
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| | | | do to provide you with more information to troubleshoot it?
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| | | | #!ipxe
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| | | | echo Hi There! We will be booting from http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ today.
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| | | | echo It is assumed that you have dhcp networking.
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| | | | echo Here we go!
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| | | | :retry
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| | | | vcreate --tag 300 net0
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| | | | sleep 5
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| | | | ifconf --configurator dhcp net0-300
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| | | | boot http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ufds/menu/bootstrap
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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.
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| | 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
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| | IT Services - Research Computing Group
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| Forgot to mention that I am using snponly.efi for the driver.

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| James A. Peltier
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James A. Peltier 
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