From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 18:51:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C8EA106566B for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1D08FC08 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcni5 with SMTP id ni5so1840044obc.13 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:51:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Re9tsuAW3Vo4UwwgSYl1vWXbujwx4vN9IM2iMPuV0iU=; b=Ee9Kv+Kb2+eJ1dHtAOhwNdcs4XhoDq8IX2BAVMC/Ws3l/ui+Yi1nA9vrxx4u7acu7H J53Z4zLz8V20rX6O8DdbqidV9VqrLzvCEWE5XuiYvMo8G/hla01iPRG5qU3TPHyrkqGc HC4GLCA0HAN8a41ve4qO9OHarNiM5IiCyTpRO5ZagNOK+Q0j+5Lqdf1Zz2LsOMLHwbJ6 LizMAlAOlpDBZNKjvJ1V15p/jfCx9ZRVnlCOWZJeUQCXVUOVczdJaoUkYOi8x8B7L8OD iEUtVpnkURpCfkjveKHWIOsw/W3PTUHj522FGcaF2Z4oN4IdeoCiDtbKCdc/08+Q0YR4 hOsg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.37.37 with SMTP id v5mr3842299obj.51.1337194287737; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.128.38 with HTTP; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:51:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F609D8F.5090007@locolomo.org> References: <4F609D8F.5090007@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:51:27 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0Qsqye6aZ8PGDpL_VYL2Cu5nOxo Message-ID: From: Rick Miller Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:28 -0000 Thanks for your feedback. I agree that separating the networks and isolating the build network thus eliminating the need for VLAN tagging is the ideal scenario. Unfortunately, influencing those changes are beyond my sphere of influence in this particular case. At the end of the day, our solution was to replace pxeboot.bs with Grub2pxe. I have a blog post detailing the scenario at https://hostileadmin.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/pxe-booting-into-a-freebsd-in= stallation/ On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Erik N=F8rgaard wr= ote: > Hi > > > On 14/03/2012 11:44, Rick Miller wrote: >> >> I thought I would follow up on this as a couple individuals expressed >> an interest in it... >> >> We have isolated the configuration in which this occurs under. =A0It >> occurs during the execution of pxeboot.bs on brocade switches with >> vlan tagging enabled. > > > You might save yourself time and money buying a cheap switch and doing yo= ur > jumpstart install on a separate closed network completely isolated from t= he > rest of your networks, without VLAN tagging required. > > If you have lots of nodes to install it makes sense to maintain your own > repository of freebsd and packages, and it's good practice to keep your > preproduction systems separate from production, so there is no need for > network access. > > > BR, Erik > > -- > M: +34 666 334 818 > T: +34 915 211 157 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 Take care Rick Miller