[gPXE] is it bug or feature for gPXE?

[oleg-gumenyuk]

11.11.10, 16:19, "Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com>:

>  On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:08, oleg-gumenyuk  wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I'll try to do the packet capturing. At this moment it is not easy due to specific of the lab environment where set of boards and bunch of ESXi with virtual systems ar deployed. tcpdump on ESXi will be ideal but imposible. :)
>  
>  http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1000880
>  
>  I'm not sure if there's another KB article that's more relevant to 4.x
>  (in case you're running 4.x).  This article makes me think that with
>  changes to the vSwitch in ESXi, another guest may be able to run the
>  capture.  I've never tried this before but it seems plausible.
I'll try to setup Linuxbox with vmware-server and land it to the lab network. So, I will be able to capture all necessary traffic. 

>  > Also I've attached screenshot of gPXE commands.
>  >
>  > Pings from Host B never resumes.
>  
>  Interesting.  gPXE closes the interface.  What happens if you try
>  "dhcp net0" again after noticing that the interface is closed?

it is shown on the screenshot. Should I do it differently?
 
>  If you're comfortable compiling gPXE, you may want to consider it but
>  I'm not sure which DEBUG options you'll want to enable.

I'd like to postpone recompilation of gPXE with DEBUG for a while. 

Thanks,  Oleg.