[gPXE] Need some help trouble shooting intalling windows 7 via gPXE

[Michael Brown]

On Monday 22 February 2010 20:18:23 Mark Bell wrote:
> At what point should I be running ifstat. Should I be doing something at
> the server.
> Please excuse the Newbish questions
>
> Just running ifstat shows the received packets go up by a few every third
> try or so

Sorry, I wasn't very clear.

Try pinging gPXE from the server, as before, in order to generate some traffic 
from the server to gPXE.  Leave wireshark running on the server, so that you 
can see the packets being transmitted.  Run "ifstat" repeatedly on the client 
and watch to see if the RX packet counter increments at roughly the same 
time/rate as the packets are transmitted from the server.

It's a crude method, but on a non-busy network it allows you to determine 
whether or not the packets are reaching gPXE without having to use any 
specific DEBUG= options.

Michael