Any progress on this?
the ipxe.pxe boot file, how limited is it in terms of the builtin NIC drivers it has? Is it random? Is it safe to assume devices made in the past 2-3-4-5-6 years should all work and undionly.kpxe is to ensure compatability for all devices including legacy older models?
I’m trying to determine how likely I am to run into issues ditching undionly.kpxe if all the computers on my network were made within the last 3 years.
Is a fix/patch in the works and just wait?
Any ideas as to what the difference is between the two pxe boot files that would cause this? Would it be something as simple as changing the setting that differs between the two and then recompiling a new undionly.kpxe for use in FOG?
That’s the issue man, you figured it out. Once I switched to ipxe.pxe the ISO booted in 3 seconds, damn near instantaneous.
I just tried both suggestions and the download rate remained the same.
I checked to make sure KeepAlive was enabled for Apache and it is. The only other thing I have found is [URL=‘http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2013-October/002864.html’]this[/URL] where httpd isn’t sending content-length header and that would make for very slow ipxe http downloads. The only thing that isn’t making sense to me here is the fact that just browsing the apache directory and downloading in an internet browser maxes out the link speed, imaging a computer maxes out the link speed, but ONLY when trying to download an ISO to boot from RAM is the download significantly slower.
Hey guys, I’ve searched the forums both with the search feature here and by using a google boolean search and read just about every thread I could find about this issue. I want to see if there is some kind of update on this or a workaround.
The issue is this, I have successfully setup an advanced boot menu it works fine
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/iso/acronis_true_image_2014.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU[/CODE]
That is the entry I am using to load Acronis’s Boot Disc. The problem is that when I load this ISO, it says loading from HTTP on the top of the screen with a percentage indicator but the download itself takes way longer than it should. The Acronis image is about 500mb and it takes almost 2 minutes to load the ISO into RAM before running it. On another computer if I just browse to [url]http://fogipaddress/fog/iso[/url] and download the same ISO it downloads in 3 seconds consistently. Why is the download taking SO much longer with the advanced boot menu, especially considering I can image a device with an 8gb Windows 7 image and transfer with ipxe at 7gb/min.
This is not a network issue, something isn’t configured right or ipxe is showing it downloading via HTTP but its actually reverted to TFTP or something.
Any insight? Where I can look?