Christian Theune

Ok, so, this is quite fiddly to setup and I only managed to get an excerpt from the middle of the conversation. It might be that this doesn't yet help,...

The cards are `61:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)` and seem to be natively supported. I'm using undionly mostly due to (very longterm) historical reasons...

Ok, so I chainloaded into ipxe.pxe and had the impression, that the kernel loaded faster, but the initrd is still as slow at 1% in 10seconds. I canceled the download...

Ah, I chained this again into the `undionly.kpxe` using the net0 interface and it's fast now as well. So something is weird with the difference between net0/net1. Both are onboard...

Yes. I'm a bit tight on on-hands resources at the moment, so the first thing I can check is whether this also happens in a regular Linux environment. I'm happy...

So, within Linux on the same machine downloading over the two interfaces shows no differences. I'll try with switches cables in a couple of days.

Both are connected to identical switches, no LACP or other functions enabled. The faster network has a bit less traffic on the router (both area 1 switch away from the...