Greetings Fred! Reply in-line. On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:47 PM fsbiz@yahoo.com <fsbiz@yahoo.com> wrote: [trim]
TFTP logs: shows TFTP client timed out (weird). Any pointers here?
Sadly this is one of those things that comes with using TFTP. Issues like this is why the community tends to recommend using ipxe.efi to chainload as you can perform transport over TCP as opposed to UDP where in something might happen mid-transport.
tftpd shows ramdisk_deployed completed. Then, it reports that the client timed out.
Grub does tend to be very abrupt and not wrap up very final actions. I suspect it may just never be sending the ack back and the transfer may be completing. I'm afraid this is one of those things you really need to see on the console what is going on. My guess would be that your deploy_ramdisk lost a packet in transfer or that it was corrupted in transport. It would be interesting to know if the network card stack is performing checksum validation, but for IPv4 it is optional. [trim]
This has me stumped here. This exact failure seems to be happening 3 to 4 times a week on different nodes. Any pointers appreciated.
thanks, Fred.