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Has something changed with UEFI?

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    svalding
    last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 1:02 PM

    I"m going to do another capture against a mirrored port. The machine and the fog server are on separate VLANs, so i’m not sure I’m grabbing all the packet data that I can get if I were to mirror the port on the switch. I’ll post that information as well once I have it.

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      george1421 Moderator @svalding
      last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 1:22 PM

      @svalding Just for clarity the fog server is not in the same broadcast domain (vlan) as the target computer or the dhcp server?

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        svalding
        last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 1:26 PM

        Correct. That’s why I want to do a port mirror and packet capture. I’m not seeing all of the information from a tcpdump on the fog server itself.

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          george1421 Moderator @svalding
          last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 1:39 PM

          @svalding said in Has something changed with UEFI?:

          Correct. That’s why I want to do a port mirror and packet capture. I’m not seeing all of the information from a tcpdump on the fog server itself.

          OK that is what I wanted to confirm. Since you are doing a proxyDHCP setup and the system running the proxyDHCP are in a different broadcast domain as the target, it will never hear the dhcp request of the target computer.

          Since your dhcp server is in a different broadcast domain (subnet) than your target computer you are probably using a dhcp-relay or dhcp-helper service on your router that sits between the vlans. Typically in this setup you would add the proxyDHCP server as the last host in the list of dhcp servers in the dhcp-relay service. You still want your main/primary dhcp server listed first in the relay, but by adding the server running the proxyDHCP service to the list (last) the proxyDHCP server will be aware of the dhcp request and reply its info too. Its a bit complicated, but that is how you have your network setup.

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            svalding
            last edited by Wayne Workman Jul 20, 2016, 4:39 PM Jul 20, 2016, 1:41 PM

            Can confirm, our network is setup in the most steaming pile of socks way you can think of. But, it’s a big university with lots of moving parts, complexity is to be expected.

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              svalding
              last edited by Wayne Workman Jul 20, 2016, 4:40 PM Jul 20, 2016, 2:26 PM

              HOLD! THE! PHONE!

              I just found a section in our infoblox called “FIle Distribution” What’s inside that you ask? all these freaking .kpxe, .pxe, and .efi files.

              What the blubber. I’m going to upload a new copy of snponly.efi and give this machine a boot again. UGH!

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                george1421 Moderator @svalding
                last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 2:41 PM

                @svalding just for clarity you infoblox is also using iPXE boot kernels?

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                  svalding
                  last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 2:45 PM

                  That’s a good question. I just discovered that these were all on here, and the timestamps on the upload match when we were mucking about getting Surface Pro 3’s to boot pxe with their UEFI. So I took a chance and uploaded the files to the infoblox. Didn’t change anything for me though. Still just getting a succeeded to download NBP file and then the retry screen.

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                    george1421 Moderator @svalding
                    last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 3:00 PM

                    @svalding Something that has bugged me (from the beginning) is where is refind.efi coming onto play? You should only use that as an exit mode from uefi mode if everything else fails to work. You should not see that as a boot processor.

                    I think you are right you need to setup a mirrored port for that target system and capture all traffic for udp ports 67, 68, and 69 (that will capture dhcp and tftp requests). We really need to understand the actors here and what the target is really being told.

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                      svalding
                      last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 3:02 PM

                      at this point, I believe that to be an anomaly on our network. We reimaged the machine this morning that was throwing that boot menu and it has been working perfectly.

                      I’m still working on the port mirroring thing.

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                        svalding
                        last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 4:59 PM

                        Guys. It’s working! I was able to get some local help from our team, and we found the issue in the infoblox. We had to make some changes for BOOTP on this particular VLAN, and move away from snponly to ipxe.efi. After I restarted services on the Infoblox appliance, this test machine booted pxe and fog!

                        Such a relief, and you’ll be glad to know it wasn’t anything inherently wrong on the fog side of things, just needed to adjust some settings on the infoblox appliance and we are good to go!

                        Again, I can’t thank you all enough for all your help. You’ve been amazing. I love this project.

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                          george1421 Moderator @svalding
                          last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 5:00 PM

                          @svalding Hey that’s great you have it going now. Don’t forget to disable dnsmasq you started setting up. It will cause you some pain/confusion if its left running and you don’t need it.

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