Re: [Etherboot-users] Broadcom 5721 & PXE

[Hardy, C. <chr...@ec...>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 00:42 -0700, Don Christensen wrote:

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> Well, even if you don't think that link state isn't changing, you=20
> should put the port into portfast mode ("spanning-tree portfast")=20
> if you can, just to be sure.  It's not uncommon for PXE to fail when=20
> the machine is connected to a port that is not so configured.
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> -Don
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I'm a network guy by trade, so I made sure portfast was on.=20

The other piece of information is that the 5721 will acquire the tg3
driver via PXE when it boots.  So as long as tg3 etherboot driver
doesn't take the port up and down, it should work as well (Well, if the
driver is receiving frames that is..)

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Chris Hardy <chr...@ec...>