Slow PXE boot

[Michio Honda]

My case was also from Linux server:)

Cheers,
- Michio

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, 22:27 Bjoern A. Zeeb, <bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net>
wrote:

> On 25 Feb 2020, at 21:02, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>
> > On 25 Feb 2020, at 20:57, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Michio Honda <micchie.gml at gmail.com> wrote
> >>   in
> >> <CA+Sc9E0NNi8ViwXCn-Hif2_RQOnu11RLEMRUT2kOAaouLNySvQ at mail.gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> mi> Hi,
> >> mi>
> >> mi> I had a similar problem before, and the solution was the use of
> >> pxeboot
> >> mi> file taken from FreeBSD 10 as suggested by Hiroki.
> >>
> >>  I could not reproduce this by using my boxes after all, but
> >> replacing
> >>  pxeboot with the older one was useful to gain the normal speed at
> >>  that time probably because of difference between new (11 or later)
> >>  loader's nfs client and the old one.  It was a problem sending a lot
> >>  of duplicated packets for some reason, not just a matter of the
> >>  buffer size.  And the server side was Linux.
> >>
> >>  Have anyone else also experienced this kind of very slow PXE
> >> booting?
> >>  It may be specific to using a Linux NFS server.
> >
> > I see it on zoo all day long for ages.  I’ll go back and try an old
> > pxeboot; if that really speeds things up massively I might even be
> > willing to debug this a bit more.
>
> I found a pxeboot from FreeBSD 7 and while it did not entirely work the
> kernel was loaded in seconds rather than minutes (felt).
>
> I guess it’s time to dig into the changes from back then..
>
> /bz
>