[ipxe-devel] iPXE Question - Used with Auto Deploy

[Austen Simpson]

Michael

Many thanks for the info - much appreciated!

Austen


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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mcb30 at ipxe.org] 
Sent: 22 April 2015 13:57
To: Austen Simpson; ipxe-devel at 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