Remote Boot

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:07:32PM -0400, Mikel King wrote:
> Just curious would it be better to add a rule to allowe 67 & 68 (tcp & 
> udp) in from the dhcp server instead of leaving the box all open? 
> Understand I've never attempted this booting a diskless, but it seems 
> like something worth trying....

all this happens before you have a chance to install an ipfw configuration
so what you suggest cannot be done unless you hardwire the rules
in the kernel (which you can't, at the moment; not that it couldn't
be done, ipfw2 is quite flexible in this respect, but the
feature is not implemented now).

	cheers
	luigi

> Atanu Ghosh wrote:
> 
> >>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.