Separate NFS and TFTP servers
Timm Essigke
Timm.Essigke at uni-bayreuth.de
Tue Aug 3 01:37:23 CEST 2004
Hi all!
I try to install FAI in a Vserver (http://www.linux-vserver.org/). The
FAI config and the TFTP server should be in a vserver, while the NFS
export is done by the host machine (with kernel NFS). I have set up
everything else also in this way (e.g. dhcp server, aptproxy server...).
This has the advantages of a clear separation with better security if
one of the services is compromised (vservers without dangerous
capabilities, minimal installation each).
After uncommenting the mount/umount commands in
fai-setup/make-fai-nfsroot, and doing the mounting in the vserver
startup scripts, I got a FAI server which allows a client to boot a
testkernel.
But now I got stuck:
How can I set the bootserver and rootserver independent of the
faiserver/tftpserver IP?
I am sure there is a variable to do so, but I couldn't find anything in
the docs.
TIA,
Timm
P.S.: If not I have to do some tweaking with firewall rules to redirect
the mount requests...
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