Re: Remote Boot

From: Atanu Ghosh (atanu_at_icsi.berkeley.edu)
Date: 10/21/03

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    To: "Tobias P. Santos" <tpeixoto@widesoft.com.br>
    Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:25:13 -0700
    
    

    >From my notes when trying to get diskless booting working:

     We usually have the firewall and dummynet enabled in our configs. The
     default is therefore not to allow any packets in or out. This stops
     the DHCP packets leaving a diskless kernel. Override this default.

    options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT

            Atanu.

    >>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias P Santos <tpeixoto@widesoft.com.br> writes:

        Tobias> Hello, I am trying to boot a FreeBSD diskless client with
        Tobias> no success. Actually, I can boot the client, the kernel
        Tobias> is downloaded and begins to boot. Then it tries to reach
        Tobias> the DHCP/BOOT server, but this never occurs and the
        Tobias> machine repeats the following messages forever:

        Tobias> bootpc_call: sosend: 13 state 00000000 DHCP/BOOTP timeout
        Tobias> for server 255.255.255.255

        Tobias> I connected both machines (server and client) with a
        Tobias> crossover cable and ran tcpdump on server. Once the kernel
        Tobias> is downloaded, there isn't any more talking on the network
        Tobias> so the client is not asking for a DHCP/BOOTP server as it
        Tobias> should be, or as it says to be.

        Tobias> I made these tests with FreeBSD 4.8 and then switched back
        Tobias> to 4.4 but got the same behaviour with both versions.

        Tobias> With version 5.0, the kernel was downloaded but it didn't
        Tobias> boot, so I gave up 5.x.

        Tobias> The NIC's are Realtek 8139 detected as rl0 on client and
        Tobias> also on server. BTW, I also tried an ed0 interface but it
        Tobias> didn't change anything.

        Tobias> Anyone could give a hand here? The only thing I can
        Tobias> imagine is something wrong with diskless kernel, but I've
        Tobias> compiled with the handbook instructions:

        Tobias> options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname
        Tobias> options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using
        Tobias> BOOTP info options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken
        Tobias> bootp daemons.

        Tobias> Any clues?

        Tobias> Thank you in advance! Best regards, -- Tobias.
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