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

Thu Jul 9 19:31:00 UTC 2015

The ipxe.efi file does not work with this hardware at all seemingly. When booting ipxe.efi I get error http://ipxe.org/err/7f11e094 

I've updated all the firmware on the machine included BIOS and UEFI firmware and iPXE simply doesn't work with this system in UEFI mode. It does however work in BIOS mode and so I've decided to continue on in that mode on this particular system until I can do further testing at some other time. If there are any tests that you would like me to run I would need to attempt to run them by the end of day today. 

----- Original Message -----

| Hi James,

| Snponly uses the firmwares own driver, just like with UNDI it's not likely
| that vlan works.
| You will probably want to use the full ipxe.efi instead since it have native
| drivers for many cards, but still with snp/nii fallback.
| Without using the native drivers in ipxe, you are in the mearsy of the
| manufacturers undi/snp/nii stack that is most likely not tested with any
| kind of vlan.

| Regards Christian
| On 8 Jul 2015 19:06, "James A. Peltier" < jpeltier at sfu.ca > wrote:

| | | | 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
| | | | | to
| | | | | 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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| | 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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Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus 
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