[gPXE] Mixed Results

[FM]

Had a fun weekend  !
Managed to Flash 2 built in Nics.

One was a Shuttle S40G  Socket A   with  Realtek 8139,  and  a Via Rhine 
II in a  Via socket 754 board.

The bios on the Shuttle  is only 256kb and  55.5kb was the Maximum size 
that I could replace  the original  PCI  ether lom with.

I wasn't  sure what to strip with rom-o-matic   , but if I remember 
correctly it was  all the wireless, sans boot, iscsi, comboot and 
Multiboot.
I left HTTPS selected on both boards,  this might have increased the 
size.  I still havn't got around to  HTTPS on my setup yet.

My basic setup is  /var/www/slitaz/ directory with the kernel, initrd 
there.      This is super easy to extract from the iso and use for 
testing.  It's a little richer than Tinycore , but that works well to.

Results

The Shuttle box booted and kept the internet connection .  The startup 
ip was  192.168.0.20 and it retained that ip  and could connect to to 
the net  from the server . The Slitaz  network config tool gave it 
192.168.0.6  route 192.168.0.1 dns 192.168.0.1 , but it works.

The Via board with the  Via Rhine II nic    can't connect to the net  or 
ping anything  after booting.    I tried to re-assign the 192.168.0.28 
ip  from  the gpxe  config settings  , but it doesn't activate.

I'm thinking some hardware like USB or X  kicks out the IP info .  Or 
the router has some left over management rules  , unlikely .   The Intel 
1000 nic did the same thing in the Via tower, couldn't retain a 
connection to the net.

Or else it's something with the server .

I used that  latest 1.0.1 sources for the Rom-O-Matic Roms.

One again Great Project     Looking forward to trying HTTPS next.

Cheers

Fergus