Michael
Many thanks for the info - much appreciated!
Austen
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mc...@ipxe.org]
Sent: 22 April 2015 13:57
To: Austen Simpson; ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE Question - Used with Auto Deploy
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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