USB Boot and point to custom FOG server IP
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@brakcounty While a split DNS config will help you to get a few steps ahead it’s as George said, FOG wasn’t made to be used with more than one interface. Not exactly sure if single cast deploy ( over NFS share) will work but I imagine it does. But multicast will definitely not work in both networks without major code changes I am sure.
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@Sebastian-Roth
I read through this tutorial and others https://www.slashroot.in/how-to-configure-split-horizon-dns-in-bind
Seems like it isn’t practical since it handles requests coming from specific subnets, which we have a very large number of. I’d have to put each known subnet into the bind config. I want requests coming from the interfaces to be handled the way you described above. -
@Sebastian-Roth
Single cast is the goal when imaging PCs remotely. This is really for times when we have to reimage a few or a single PC and we need to bring it back to hq to image. I could put fog servers at each site loaded with dept specific images. Do the web files reference 10.0.0.10 or does something else do that? Because I could make two fog sources under /var/www and have each dedicated to the interfaces. -
@brakcounty said in USB Boot and point to custom FOG server IP:
Do the web files reference 10.0.0.10 or does something else do that? Because I could make two fog sources under /var/www and have each dedicated to the interfaces.
It’s stored in the database (storage node settings in the web UI). FOG was not made for this and you will have to dig pretty deep even to get unicast to work.
When machines PXE boot they load a generated iPXE configuration (via URL http://x.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php) and that is build using the values from the database.
As I said earlier I imagine it might be easier for you to use George’s USB boot method where you manually specify the values using Kernel parameters instead of using the auto-generated iPXE configuration.
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@sebastian-roth
I figured such. The usb method on my offline imaging switch is redundant since pxe works fine on that. Just would have been nice to be able to image remotely booting via USB, kind of like Acronis+mapping to an SMB share that stores the images. If only my network team would enable tftp/pxe on their dhcp servers. We have it only on our hq subnet but it is being used by SCCM, and SCCM takes a very, very long time to image a PC. We only use it to get a base Windows 10 image and work on it from there, then capture/upload our custom dept images to the FOG server.