[ipxe-devel] [howto] chainload wimboot

[Andreas Hammarskjöld]

Use ipxe + peerdist option (BranchCache) + wimboot?

//Andreas

From: ipxe-devel-bounces at lists.ipxe.org [mailto:ipxe-devel-bounces at lists.ipxe.org] On Behalf Of bowser-daniel at web.de
Sent: den 11 december 2015 14:18
To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] [howto] chainload wimboot

Hi Robin,

currently I'm working on a workflow to automatically detect PXE attacks in an network. Therefore I was writing my own Bootloader which manages to notice this kind of attacks and does some more things. After the bootloader did his job I have to start a WINPE. The reason i have to use wimboot ist that the normal tftp download ist to slow for bigger scaling networks. Lets say i want to start 20000 WINPE at the same time I will get a big problem if i would use TFTP. So i want to use wimboot because its http download has a better performance.
It would also help me if you know if i could use ipxe to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help
Daniel

Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Dezember 2015 um 09:16 Uhr
Von: "Robin Smidsrød" <robin at smidsrod.no<mailto:robin at smidsrod.no>>
An: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org<mailto:ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org>
Betreff: Re: [ipxe-devel] [howto] chainload wimboot
On 10.12.2015 15:19, bowser-daniel at web.de<mailto:bowser-daniel at web.de> wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> like the subject says I need to know if there is a way to chainload
> wimboot within an other bootloader.
> The background of this question is that im currently writing my own
> bootloader that starts a WINPE over HTTP. In the last weeks I managed to
> start a bootmgfw.efi over PXE. And now I want to chainload the wimboot
> instead of the bootmgfw.efi and afterwarts let the wimboot start the
> WINPE over HTTP. Ist this possible? And what do I have to do?
> I have no idea how to start with this and I hope someone of you could
> help me.

Why are you even doing this, when ipxe+wimboot already does what you
want? See ipxe.org/howto/winpe or ipxe.org/howto/sccm and
ipxe.org/appnote/wimboot_architecture for details on how they work.

Please feel free to elaborate why/if the current ipxe+wimboot doesn't
work for you and your situation.

-- Robin

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