On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Zate wrote: > >#2 - PXE Server > > > >We have a rather large data center, with lots of VLANs set up for various > >servers. Internal VLANS, 3 Tier hosting network VLANS, etc etc. What is > >the best way to get PXE working in this environment ? > [snipped] > > A better question might be: what are the tradeoffs/complications to > having PXE work in-situ versus isolated? > > For an isolated environment, i.e. where you hook up the kickstart server > and "client" to the same switch but nothing else, the server has to > provide all resources (some of DHCP, TFTP, DNS, HTTP, NFS, rdate, NTP) > and cannot leverage your existing infrastructure. > > For an in-situ PXE kickstart, sometimes the existing infrastructure gets > in the way, e.g. you don't have sufficient access or are unwilling to > change the DHCP setup. > > The "happy" medium, as you suggest, can be to use a spare network port > to perform the kickstart in-situ. This usually gets you the best of both > worlds, but care must be taken to specify the correct "eth0, eth1" in > all places. Tricky, but not impossible. One other possibility is to use the pxe package in combination with mtftp and tftp. This gets you around the problems associated with not having control over the dhcp server. Getting it configured to work properly can sometimes be painful though. HTH, .............Tom
