From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 10:44:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE757106564A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:44:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899978FC18 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl9 with SMTP id l9so1987340yen.13 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:44:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Mmg6KwXF2aHYWHknaMevVI7YAC2zdnvxb2yE6JZ2CcU=; b=iANRfk+SnCo6oJV6xOiC24YcTFcohHP5psfEsRYY69L/KZTZL8nmaqkdw9lxKWZ41q LQbXePdPVckRonzDnDT6b0kWobbK60t9x4r0KZcp72IEiAb9YlAxBRMFTu8zYALt0JPF DPdX7wnW7uzbJqalfKVK4iq5gWWNMgssm4Kl+GdDEDtfG+BGKd6SwlK6CNEsT8fmYyfa 8DVPtGZY6SZO/5Xvrr6dE5YyYZSsr0luZFjq5Q0z/cA2BYPrpvlajJaxBcEDbLAByHhb Zxs9tnGdbNNKhGhZEbR6YjZZZuMmdI4/+A1cgfwa0F2xsb1YWD+BvV9icRSmfiCgHk1N PCYg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.28.103 with SMTP id a7mr2515293oeh.24.1331721876631; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.80.131 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:44:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:44:36 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: S1GAkKTeGXJaezIpOkPmb737Chw Message-ID: From: Rick Miller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:44:42 -0000 I thought I would follow up on this as a couple individuals expressed an interest in it... We have isolated the configuration in which this occurs under. It occurs during the execution of pxeboot.bs on brocade switches with vlan tagging enabled. We have begun to review the pxeboot.bs source code in order to get more debug information out of it and have opened a support case with Brocade. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > Are there significant differences in the implementation between the > tftp client in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and the client implementation in > pxeboot.bs? > > I ask because I have encountered a scenario where pxeboot.bs is > tftp'ing boot files from a PXE server and fails in random spots while > attempting to download boot files to start a 8.2-RELEASE install. > When we run the same sequence of tftp gets in a running 8.2-RELEASE > instance continuously, we never received a single failure in a solid > hour of attempts. > > -- > Take care > Rick Miller -- Take care Rick Miller