Hello Sven,

Regarding the issue of slow transfer speeds, I cannot recall precisely what 
build of gPXE that gPXELINUX uses, but it's very possible that it uses native 
drivers for your NIC.  If you'd like to try using native drivers for your iPXE 
deployment, cd to src/ and try "make bin/ipxe.pxe" and chainload that file 
instead.  It should include all native drivers.  There are also the .kpxe and 
.kkpxe builds, and while I know technically what they do, I'm not really sure 
what the indications are for using one over the other.  MEMDISK tends to work 
with the .pxe builds just fine, in my experience.

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky

On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Sven Dreyer wrote:

> Hi list (once again),
> 
> I noticed that when downloading a kernel/initrd/whatever using http, iPXE is 
> roughly 8 times slower compared to gpxelinux doing the same http download.
> 
> With iPXE, I get a constant download speed of 10 MBit/s on the LAN (100 
> MBit/s). I tried the undionly.kpxe as well as the floppy image, which don't 
> seem to make a difference in speed in this case.
> 
> Does anybody have a hint or can I help debugging this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sven
> 
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