On 22/04/15 10:39, Austen Simpson wrote:
Would you be able to help me in finding out if iPXE is able to set a
vlan id so that when each host loads the boot loader I can ensure the
host remains on a specific vlan in order to make a https call to a
deployment server?
I need to ensure that each stage of the build process the host remains
on the correct vlan to complete the build.
So far I have managed to identify three stages in which I will need to
stipulate a vlan.
1.Pxe network boot to dhcp server will be handled in the bios (hp blade
system)
2.Once directed to the tftp server where ipxe exists I don’t know how to
ensure that the host remains on the vlan?????
3.Here I will be using vmware auto deploy and there are rules that can
be stipulated here to ensure vlan compliance.
You need to build iPXE with VLAN support enabled. The easiest way to do
this is to enable the VLAN commands (VLAN_CMD) in config/general.h.
This will give you the commands "vcreate" and "vdestroy", which are
documented with examples at
http://ipxe.org/cmd/vcreate
http://ipxe.org/cmd/vdestroy
You can use vcreate to create a VLAN interface from the trunk network
interface, and you can then do whatever you want over this VLAN
interface. For example:
#!ipxe
vcreate --tag 45 net0
autoboot net0-45
Michael
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