[mythtv-users] OT: netboot is extremely slow to boot

Dan Littlejohn dan.littlejohn at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 20:15:45 UTC 2010


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Justin Johnson
<justin.johnson3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Tyler T <tylernt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Additionally, if you find TFTP to be somewhat slow, then you can use use
> >> HTTP instead.
> >
> > Or a WvTFTP server, which pre-emptively sends multiple packets so more
> > than one packet is "in-flight" on the wire at any given time. Bends
> > the slower lock-step standard a little, but ought to work for most
> > existing PXE/TFTP clients.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions but I've gone another direction so I
> can't really test them all out. That being said, I will star this
> thread for future reference, perhaps someday when I decide to go
> mucking about with mythtv again...
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One other thing to consider is bad hardware implementations.  I use PXE to
netboot have have had cheap motherboard ethernet cards refuse all attempts
to work right.  I bought an intel ethernet card and I was done in 20
minutes.  YMMV.
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