Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:55:17 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: diskless stations and 7-current Message-ID: <55973034@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
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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 -- 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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