fai server and clients in diffenerent networks?
Thomas Lange
lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Mon May 23 18:48:31 CEST 2005
>>>>> On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:21:28 +0200, "Thomas Wuppermann" <tw at hbt.de> said:
> Hi list,
> we want to use fai in a network structure with several vlans, so the FAI-server and the install-clients will be in different (internal)networks and the communication has to be routed (and firewalled).
> DHCP/BOOTP, DNS, and HTTP are working, the only thing I worry about is using nfs through a router.
> Is there by chance a way using fai without nfs? (I fear there ist not ;-) )
Sure! You can boot with the fai-cd which includes the nfsroot and then
write a hook to receive the config space via cvs or http. Or you could
create another install kernel which uses an initrd which will be
tranfered over TFTP.
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regards Thomas
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