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

[Marty Connor]

On 2/22/10 3:35 PM, Mark Bell wrote:
> Packets are not moving as they should be. I compared it against pinging the 
> client from my Ubuntu box

I have a feeling you're expecting gPXE to respond to your pings.

I don't believe gPXE does that.  It will however "hear" the packets if
the interface is open.

So if you get to the "gPXE>" prompt, and do:

  gPXE> ifopen

gPXE will open your network interface(s).

  gPXE> dhcp net0

will get your DHCP configuration information (if possible)

  gPXE> route

will show your IP address, netmask, and gateway.

You can then do:

  gPXE> ifstat

to see the number of packets:

  net0: 00:1e:4f:dd:aa:a2 on PCI00:19.0 (open)
    [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:17 RXE:0]

Now that you have an IP address, you can ping it.

You then repeatedly type:

  gPXE> ifstat

and see if the RX field is incrementing.

I believe the current theory is that the packets from the server are not
reaching gPXE, for reasons yet to be understood.

I hope this helps you.

/ Marty /