[ipxe-devel] IPXE master: NIC looses connectivity

[Michael Brown]

On 24/09/18 23:33, Arun SAG wrote:
> We tried to run the latest master 133f4c47. Our build includes a SSL
> certificate in the undionly.kpxe. IPXE loads and does a dhcp request
> and receives a response, Loads the kernel and ramdisk, boots the
> ramdisk over https; the kernel boots and dracut in the ramdisk again
> does a dhcp and this actually fails. There is no network connectivity
> from the nic. It seems like the nic just dropped out of the network.
> This was reproducible on zt systems ZT z801. That machine has a nic
> manufactured by
> INVENTEC CORPORATION (00:8C:FA) . It is a Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet
> Network Driver and uses igb driver.
> 
> When we reverted to a older
> version(1b67a0564657b6fcef18b1588ea6491ca1b1996d) ipxe, we don't see
> that issue anymore.

In that case, you can use bisection to identify the problem commit:

   http://ipxe.org/howto/bisect

Michael