From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 20:31:09 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 637DC1065676 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:31:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from mail.locolomo.org (97.pool85-48-194.static.orange.es [85.48.194.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E708FC0C for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gamma.lan.locolomo.org (gamma.lan.locolomo.org [192.168.0.33]) by mail.locolomo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A0F11C0841 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:31:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F53D104.6060104@locolomo.org> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:31:00 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:31:09 -0000 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 -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157