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@babouche said in Force bios to PXE boot after task:

Start PXE…
Check media presence…
start pxe over ipv4 on mac: XXXXXXXXXXXX (stuck 30 seconds a this) Maybe it’s because i have radius authentification+dhcp.

This bit is part of your infrastructure. As you suggested it appears your NAC/NAP system is running a bit slow at this point. I think I would focus on understanding why this is slow, especially since during the boot process of the FOS Engine it queries for a DHCP address 3 times (once for PXE ROM, once for iPXE (fog boot menu), and once for the FOS engine). If you are getting a delay each time I can see why you have a slow booting process.

And then the tftp begin (it takes then 20 second to begin the deployment)

This sounds normal from my experience. The iPXE boot manager (program that creates the FOG iPXE menu) is small in size, about 1MB and the FOS engine (the OS that clones the hard drives) is about 28MB in size. These files should transfer really fast. The FOS Engine takes about 15 seconds to boot and start doing things.

@babouche said in Client Host not showing after 2nd restart:

It’s only when i manually ping from my server to the client that i can see my firewall deny the ping.

Ping (ICMP protocol) is handled different by a firewall than TCP connections are. Ping being denied might be a hint on other protocols also being restricted but doesn’t give you a definitive answer on that question.