On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Thomas Mieslinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have VMware VMs running on E5-2650 iron, 10g connected. The VM I want to > install has an emulated e1000 chip which fist runs the stock vmware PXE ROM, > then pxelinux 4.03 and then finally ipxe.lkrn.
What VMware product? Why not try a newer version of PXELINUX? Where did your pxelinux.0 binary come from? Tried an ipxe.iso perhaps? > The http Server is a centos 6.4 with apache httpd-2.2.15-29 serving files. > > Downloads initiated by ipxe a very unstable. Often the vmlinuz or initrd.img > file downloads stuck at 43% or so. > > The http servers tcp tuning values (tcp_wmem et al.) are centos stock > configuration. > > How can I debug http downloading? Are there any recommendations like "use > cubic congestion control on server side"? Should I try to increase the > compiled in tcp receive buffer? As mentioned, a packet capture from a switchport mirror is best. Otherwise, from the HTTP server. -- -Gene _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
