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 / > _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
