diskless stations and 7-current
Boris Samorodov
bsam at ipt.ru
Fri Dec 15 07:54:44 PST 2006
Hello All!
I've been testing diskless stations. The server runs 7-current i386
(built at 2006-12-11). PXE loads pxeboot, then the GENERIC kernel is
loaded via NFS. / and /usr are NFS mounted from the server. /home
is NFS mounted from a workstation.
Here are some results.
1. The bootpd daemon sometimes do the work, sometimes -- not. It is loaded
via inetd but stays loaded forever (according to bootpd(8) the default
value is 15 minutes).
I didn't find out when/why it fails. One morning (the daemon survived
the whole night) I killed it and the next booting was a success.
Then it failed again.
net/isc-dhcp3-server works here just fine.
2. While booting, the diskless station logs a note that
/var/db/mountdtab cannot be created. After /conf/default/var/db
directory is created those messages dissapears.
3. Diskless stations hang forever when "shutdown -p" at
"saving entropy". Halt and reboot work as expected.
4. If gdm is started at the diskless station there is no chance to
switch to any console, <C-A-Fn> doesn't work.
5. GDM seems to be build by default with IPv6 support and listens
only at udp6 *.xdmcp. Rebuilding without IPv6 helps to get it
listen at udp4.
Other then that works just fine.
Thanks for all folks doing the hard work!
WBR
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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