Slow PXE boot

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 25 Feb 2020, at 17:27, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> 
> >  [...] 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 experience very slow PXE loading from a FreeBSD TFTP/NFS server, especially when UEFI is involved. I?d be happy to run tests and otherwise gather data.

I have seen this before as well, I tried to debug it, then some changes someplace suddently made it disappear and I was unable to duplicate it.

Note I also use a very sacred pxeboot image from a 11.x system I saved that just works for me.
I boot systems with a native pxe rom, they are handed my custom built more complete pxe that understands nfs and http.
I then boot our loader and kernel via nfs.
The only thing I do over tftp is to hand out my customer version of the pxe code and my menu.pxe file.

> Jon
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org