Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

[Bill Tillman]

From: Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com>
To: Erik Nørgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org>; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

Hi Erik,

Thanks for getting back to me.  The original problem is the same
issue...we are still working it, but we've isolated the configuration
where the issue manifests itself.  It has to do with the FreeBSD
pxeboot and Brocade switches.  We will continue troubleshooting in our
lab.  When we've identified a fix/workaround I will be sure to follow
up here.

On 3/4/12, Erik Nørgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:
> On 01/03/2012 16:16, Rick Miller wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Are there significant differences in the implementation between the
>> tftp client in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and the client implementation in
>> pxeboot.bs?
>
> I have no reason to believe there should be any difference. If you
> believe there is a problem with the supplied pxeboot, you can compile
> your own.
>
> You previusly wrote about VLAN tagging for your pxeboot nodes, but never
> wrote back if you solved the problem. What's your setup?
>
>> I ask because I have encountered a scenario where pxeboot.bs is
>> tftp'ing boot files from a PXE server and fails in random spots while
>> attempting to download boot files to start a 8.2-RELEASE install.
>> When we run the same sequence of tftp gets in a running 8.2-RELEASE
>> instance continuously, we never received a single failure in a solid
>> hour of attempts.
>
> You should have some log or other traces to debug on the problem, can't
> help much without.
>
> BR, Erik
>
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Rick Miller
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I can't speak to all the technical nuiances you reference here but I have a diskless
booting system which runs 8.2-STABLE and it's been running flawless for several
months. I last did make buildworld on the server's os and the diskless's boot
partition in December...all is well for me.