[gPXE] Strange ARP problem with gpxe 1.0.0+

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ben Derstine <BLD17 at sa.psu.edu> wrote:
> I didn’t but putting on seems to have solved problem- thanks.  I guess my
> gpxe script is trying to hit the network before the switch gets done with
> spanning-tree after the interface first comes up (it takes about 30 seconds
> on these switches.)  I’m going to see if I can put a timing delay in my gpxe
> script to allow for this.

Why not use portfast mode?  The purpose of portfast is to allow leaf
nodes to access the network quickly without waiting for STP.

Sleep will just add an artificial delay that slows down the boot.
There is a sleep command in gPXE but the solution is really to
configure the switches rather than adding delays in the boot process.

Stefan