[ipxe-devel] VirtualBox WDS Issues

[Clifroy Henry]

On 11/22/2011 03:32 AM, Tal Aloni wrote:
> I'll put it another way:
> when the client gets its DHCP information, does the gateway it 
> receives equals to the IP address of the WDS server, or does it equal 
> to the IP address of the router?
> (in Windows you can check it out using ipconfig /all, not sure how to 
> get this info with linux)
> (in both cases you'll have internet at the client)
> Tal
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>     *From:* Clifroy Henry <mailto:buysomesocks at gmail.com>
>     *To:* Tal Aloni <mailto:tal.aloni.il at gmail.com>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:26 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [ipxe-devel] VirtualBox WDS Issues
>
>     On 11/22/2011 03:17 AM, Tal Aloni wrote:
>>     Hi Clifroy,
>>     Is your DHCP gateway IP address equals to the WDS server IP address?
>>     Regards,
>>     Tal
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     From: "Clifroy Henry" <buysomesocks at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:buysomesocks at gmail.com>>
>>     To: <ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org <mailto:ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org>>
>>     Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:02 AM
>>     Subject: [ipxe-devel] VirtualBox WDS Issues
>>
>>     >I have a system of virtual machines setup on an internal network
>>     with
>>     > the VB dhcp server disabled.
>>     >
>>     > #1 is my firewall with one port bridged to the interface on the
>>     host and
>>     > the other interface on the internal network. DHCP is disabled and
>>     > relayed to #2 Which is a Windows 2008 R2 Server managing WDS. I
>>     have the
>>     > DHCP options configured to point to my #3 Debian target and #4
>>     Is the
>>     > initiator.
>>     >
>>     > I have been forced to use ipxe.iso as all my previous efforts of
>>     > chainloading undionly.kpxe then booting wdsnbp.com have failed
>>     with some
>>     > weird WDS error which after being in contact with Michael Brown
>>     over IRC
>>     > I still was not able to resolve.
>>     >
>>     > When using any of the Intel NICs in VB after displaying the
>>     Root Path,
>>     > it pauses for about 5 seconds or so and then shows "Could not
>>     open SAN
>>     > device: Connection timed out (http://ipxe.org/4c0a6035)
>>     > No more network devices"
>>     >
>>     > The strange thing is if I change to any of the AMD PCNET NICs
>>     it boots
>>     > fine until it complains that it couldn't find a driver in the
>>     image.
>>     >
>>     > I'm at my whits end so if anyone could spare some insight it
>>     would be
>>     > much appreciated. Thank you.
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>     Thank you for a prompt response Tal but I'm not exactly sure how
>     to answer your question. The Debian VM gets all its information
>     from the Windows Server and can access the internet just fine so I
>     imagine so.
>
Ok, that is clearer. I was confused as you said dhcp gateway. I had just 
never heard the two terms used in conjunction. Going by the info ipxe 
displays though the gateway would be the firewall.
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