Imaging via VPN; any update on that old issue?
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Hi everyone,
While back there was a long discussion about one’s inability to use FOG across VPN connected sites and ultimately it had to do with the tftp implementation and packet size; clearly a networking issue. Suggestions were circulated as to adjust the tftp server largest block size (at daemon start-up command line parameters) but I don’t believe an official remedy was ever achieved (do correct me if I am wrong here).
So I wanted to ping the community to see whether this issue is possibly no longer a problem with the newest version of FOG or whether a concrete remedy was discovered?
Thank you
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I don’t have VPN or tunnels of any type to test with. So I’m going to say No, but that doesn’t mean I’m not open to trying to figure out a solution.
If you’d be willing to work with me on getting such a setup, I’m sure others would appreciate the effort as well.
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Just to bring it to the forefront, I imagine this is the forum (old) that you were referring to?
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/tftp-issues.823/[/url]
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Yes it is. I did testing with local tftp in order to eliminate that variable and further discovered that NFS copy, too has a major performance issue. I couldn’t find your e-mail address ping me off-site and would love to setup VPN sites (I have spare ASAs laying around) and we can have a decent test bed.
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Also,
While the payload of receiving the undionly.kpxe/default.ipxe files may take a little bit (about 130k total size) ipxe uses http/tcp protocols after this, so I imagine as long as the payload can be received everything after that would go Very fast.