From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 15:54:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693DB16A40F for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CBC43CE7 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:52:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from srv.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GvFNv-000845-8t for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:54:07 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GvFP3-00053U-6W for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:55:17 +0300 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:55:17 +0300 Message-ID: <55973034@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: diskless stations and 7-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:54:44 -0000 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, 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 -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve