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

[Marty Connor]

Mark,

Actually, gPXE _does_ respond to pings.  So forget the part about
ifstat'ing.

I totally forgot that Michael added that!

/ Marty /

On 2/22/10 4:18 PM, Marty Connor wrote:
> 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 /
>