possible bug in pxeboot with TFTP support

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:16:15PM -0400, Ryan J. Taylor wrote:
> I compiled pxeboot with TFTP support by doing:
> cd /usr/src/sys/boot
> make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
> 
> I have clients booting via PXE and grabbing their root filesystem from a 
> memory disk.  However, there was a long delay in the boot sequence. 
> tcpdump revealed that after downloading pxeboot, the client was sending 
> RPC traffic, presumably looking for NFS.  This caused the boot to stall 
> for 30 seconds or so until the loader spit out "NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60" 
> and then continued booting via tftp.

Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=91720

Regards,
Brix
-- 
Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik at brixandersen.dk>
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