Network issue during FAI installation

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Am Sa. Mai 14 00:15:29 2016 GMT+0200 schrieb Thomas Lange:
 
> Some years ago, I had a defective cable which had only problems when
> using larger ethernet packets. Pinging worked very well, ...

In my case the network link was down: "no-CARRIER", so neither ping nor nfs worked. 

> I'm not aware of any reason that
> software or a different driver could "fix" a defective cable.

You are right. Same to me.
First I thought about an UEFI (settings) issue or something like that and didn't expect a new cable to work.
Strange. 

Christian