Posts made by brakcounty

On the FOG web UI, clicking the Images or Hosts tabs bring me to a blank page that says “Search” at the top. The FOG menu bar up top looks fine, as well as everything else. I think this has been a thing for a while. Just wondering if it is a bug or feature and if I should just edit the php so that when I click for example Hosts (http://<fogserver_ip>/fog/management/index.php?node=host) it takes me to the List all Hosts (http://<fogserver_ip>/fog/management/index.php?node=host&sub=list) page instead.

I can say that we aren’t constantly imaging and reimaging PCs in our environment. The FOG server does a lot of idling. I do the most because I’m always working on golden images and testing. But that’s about it. I don’t think I could make a solid proposal to my employer to pay a small team full-time for full support of FOG. It wouldn’t be feasible. If anything we need to get more people using FOG instead of other very expensive imaging solutions. If the community grows then you’ll have a higher chance of gaining a few more volunteers.

@george1421 Ah ok I misread the OP. Well last time I checked, True Image can still create a boot image ISO with Windows kernels in addition to Linux kernels. If I’m not mistaken I believe you need to have the Windows ADK suite installed in order to create a WinPE boot ISO.

@Pitohui
How big is the ISO file? Perhaps you can try the sanboot or memdisk methods?

What about the wimboot method?
This is my ipxe entry for booting PMagic11 that is WinPE.

set tftp-path tftp://${fog-ip}
set web-path http://${fog-ip}
set pe-path ${web-path}/pm11_winpe
kernel ${tftp-path}/wimboot gui
imgfetch --name BCD ${pe-path}/BCD BCD
imgfetch --name boot.sdi ${pe-path}/boot.sdi boot.sdi
imgfetch --name bootmgr ${pe-path}/bootmgr bootmgr
imgfetch --name boot.wim ${pe-path}/boot.wim boot.wim
boot || goto MENU

You’ll have to extract the files listed above from your Acronis ISO. Download the latest wimboot from here.

You can place wimboot in your /tftproot and download it via tftp, the rest of the files you can place in /var/www/acronis to download via http and make sure to change ownership to fogproject:www for all the files in /var/www/acronis.

Any reason why we can’t use SMB instead of NFS for deploy/capture? An .smbcredentials file can be stored securely and creds can be sent securely. Just wondering because I couldn’t find anything related to the topic and I don’t know if the devs have tried this already.

@george1421 As you said those ports are dynamic, however I found a way to lock some ports to make sure they don’t change from this thread

I did everything except RPCRQUOTADOPTS and the post init scripts ran fine without delay. I’m assuming this won’t change as I had to restart the nfs-kernel-server.service to apply the changes. Hopefully this will stick.

Small note at the bottom of the linked thread, make sure you allow the ports in ufw.

I want to disable IPv6 on my FOG servers but want to make sure that FOG does not need it. That is all.

@george1421 Ah so that is a dynamic port for both incoming and outgoing? Because I noticed in the logs that the outgoing kept changing but incoming 41257/tcp remained constant. I’ve read the NFSv4 tutorial and it does seem a bit involved. I have to study it further until I’m comfortable to move from v3 to v4.

THAT WAS IT!!!

I had to allow incoming 41257/tcp and now the postinit script runs and the customhostname script runs without delay!

@george1421 I found this after running netstat -anp | grep 41257

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:41257           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      903/rpc.mountd 

I will try to allow TCP 41257 incoming and report back.

@george1421 This is the log from ufw that I just pulled while trying it again, hopefully it shows something useful. I’m not sure what port is defined as here:

administrator@ncitimageserver:~$ sudo less /var/log/ufw.log | grep client_IP
May 31 18:28:39 ncitimageserver kernel: [598709.524681] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35279 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:28:40 ncitimageserver kernel: [598710.525640] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35280 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:28:42 ncitimageserver kernel: [598712.574205] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35281 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:28:46 ncitimageserver kernel: [598716.605686] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35282 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:28:54 ncitimageserver kernel: [598724.988583] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35283 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:29:10 ncitimageserver kernel: [598741.372912] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35284 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:29:43 ncitimageserver kernel: [598773.628034] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35285 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=848 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:30:49 ncitimageserver kernel: [598839.675855] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=51785 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=849 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:30:50 ncitimageserver kernel: [598840.824548] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=51786 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=849 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:31:04 ncitimageserver kernel: [598855.178580] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=51789 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=849 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:31:20 ncitimageserver kernel: [598871.418287] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=51790 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=849 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:59:54 ncitimageserver kernel: [600584.900335] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13454 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:59:55 ncitimageserver kernel: [600585.925221] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13455 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 18:59:57 ncitimageserver kernel: [600588.204615] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13456 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:00:02 ncitimageserver kernel: [600592.581160] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13457 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:00:10 ncitimageserver kernel: [600600.772906] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13458 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:00:26 ncitimageserver kernel: [600617.156694] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13459 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:00:59 ncitimageserver kernel: [600649.508087] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=13460 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=763 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:02:04 ncitimageserver kernel: [600715.201279] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=21317 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=856 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:02:05 ncitimageserver kernel: [600716.227064] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=21318 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=856 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:02:07 ncitimageserver kernel: [600718.274352] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=21319 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=856 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:02:20 ncitimageserver kernel: [600730.818586] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=21321 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=856 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:02:36 ncitimageserver kernel: [600747.201524] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=21322 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=856 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:11:19 ncitimageserver kernel: [601269.871776] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6393 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:11:20 ncitimageserver kernel: [601270.912073] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6394 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:11:22 ncitimageserver kernel: [601272.961468] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6395 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:11:26 ncitimageserver kernel: [601276.994434] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6396 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:11:35 ncitimageserver kernel: [601285.507050] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6397 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:11:51 ncitimageserver kernel: [601301.889730] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6398 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:12:23 ncitimageserver kernel: [601334.145989] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6399 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=838 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:13:29 ncitimageserver kernel: [601400.192804] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43619 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=968 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:13:30 ncitimageserver kernel: [601401.216466] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43620 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=968 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:13:32 ncitimageserver kernel: [601403.264053] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43621 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=968 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:13:45 ncitimageserver kernel: [601415.551448] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43623 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=968 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:14:01 ncitimageserver kernel: [601431.935066] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43624 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=968 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:17:46 ncitimageserver kernel: [601657.199314] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43876 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:17:47 ncitimageserver kernel: [601658.241876] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43877 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:17:49 ncitimageserver kernel: [601660.289097] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43878 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:17:53 ncitimageserver kernel: [601664.321116] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43879 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:18:01 ncitimageserver kernel: [601672.449556] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43880 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:18:18 ncitimageserver kernel: [601688.833380] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43881 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:18:50 ncitimageserver kernel: [601721.088681] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43882 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=985 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:19:51 ncitimageserver kernel: [601782.324070] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=15559 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=952 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:19:52 ncitimageserver kernel: [601783.342553] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=15560 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=952 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:19:54 ncitimageserver kernel: [601785.390980] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=15561 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=952 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:19:58 ncitimageserver kernel: [601789.423087] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=15562 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=952 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 19:20:07 ncitimageserver kernel: [601797.614190] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=15563 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=952 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:20:23 ncitimageserver kernel: [605414.476663] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40747 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:20:24 ncitimageserver kernel: [605415.479902] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40748 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:20:27 ncitimageserver kernel: [605417.535465] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40749 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:20:31 ncitimageserver kernel: [605421.559523] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40750 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:20:39 ncitimageserver kernel: [605429.751249] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40751 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:20:55 ncitimageserver kernel: [605446.134847] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40752 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:21:27 ncitimageserver kernel: [605478.399327] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40753 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=679 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:22:19 ncitimageserver kernel: [605529.594905] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26914 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:22:20 ncitimageserver kernel: [605530.609908] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26915 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:22:22 ncitimageserver kernel: [605532.658072] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26916 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:22:26 ncitimageserver kernel: [605536.690019] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26917 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:22:34 ncitimageserver kernel: [605544.946503] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26918 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:22:50 ncitimageserver kernel: [605561.329865] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26919 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
May 31 20:23:23 ncitimageserver kernel: [605593.584863] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eno1 OUT= MAC=90:b1:1c:26:98:ee:08:00:27:be:19:06:08:00 SRC=client_IP DST=fog_IP LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26920 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=959 DPT=41257 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 

I tried disabling the fog.customhostname postinit script, the delay is still there. I tried changing 8.8.8.8 in the script to our own internal DNS server, same result. I don’t know if this is a Linux or FOG issue, hopefully someone can shed some light, but I’ll keep digging.

@p4cm4n ipxe is loaded from the USB drive, EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi. This file is actually the ipxe.efi kernel file taken from my FOG server in /tftproot/

@p4cm4n You know now that I think about it, if the remote DHCP server does not have the fog server IP set as the DHCP relay server, then this could be why ipxe process is asking for the tftp server.

@p4cm4n Yes there are managed firewalls, DHCP servers, switches between the FOG server and the client workstation in the screenshot above.

@p4cm4n Yes, the script runs without delay when UFW is disabled.

Here is a script that pulls the serialnumber from a device’s firmware and autopopulates it in the “Enter hostname for this computer:” field during Full Registration. The script is /images/postiniscripts/fog.customhostname. I can ping 8.8.8.8 from the FOG server so I don’t think UFW is blocking that. Important note, when UFW is disabled, there is no delay.

#!/bin/bash

zmyip=`ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk 'NR==1 {print $NF}' | cut -d "." -f1-2`;

case "${zmyip}" in
     10.1)
         zsitecode="NYC";
         ;;
     10.2)
         zsitecode="LA";
         ;;
     *)
         # Default code for the unknowns
         zsitecode="CRP";
         ;;
esac

zchassis=`dmidecode -s chassis-type`;
zchassis="${zchassis%"${zchassis##*[![:space:]]}"}";  #Remove training space
zchassis="${zchassis,,}"; # Convert string to lower

if [ "$zchassis" == "laptop" ]; then
    zchtype="P";
elif [ "$zchassis" == "tablet" ]; then
    zchtype="T";
else
    # Everything else is a desktop
    zchtype="D";
fi

zserialno=`dmidecode -s chassis-serial-number`;
zserialno="${zserialno%"${zserialno##*[![:space:]]}"}";  # Remove trailing whitespace

# get the serial no from the baseboard if chassis doesn't give it up
if [ "$zserialno" == "" ]; then
    zserialno=`dmidecode -s baseboard-serial-number`;
    zserialno="${zserialno%"${zserialno##*[![:space:]]}"}";
fi

LEN=$(echo ${#zserialno});
if [ "$LEN" -gt 11 ]; then
    # get the right most characters of the serial number (usually the most
    # unique characters). Logic for 11 is Site(3)+HW(1)+Serial(11)=15 characters
    zserialno=${zserialno:(-11)};
fi

# default host name is returned to the fog.man.reg script
host_default_name="$zserialno";

Here are my UFW rules in /etc/ufw.user.rules:

### RULES ###

### tuple ### allow tcp 3306 0.0.0.0/0 any fogserver2 in
-A ufw-user-input -p tcp --dport 3306 -s fogserver2 -j ACCEPT

### tuple ### allow tcp 21,80,111,138,139,443,445,2049,20048 0.0.0.0/0 any 0.0.0.0/0 in
-A ufw-user-input -p tcp -m multiport --dports 21,80,111,138,139,443,445,2049,20048 -j ACCEPT

### tuple ### allow udp 66,67,68,69,111,137,4011 0.0.0.0/0 any 0.0.0.0/0 in
-A ufw-user-input -p udp -m multiport --dports 66,67,68,69,111,137,4011 -j ACCEPT

This is the screen where there is a huge delay

then it skips the Post init script

I noticed that when I boot the FOG ipxe kernel from USB on a different subnet than where the FOG is I get asked to enter the tftp server address. This doesn’t happen on the same subnet. Is there something I need to adjust on the FOG server?

@chrisakak9
I think this is what you might need
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10944/using-fog-to-pxe-boot-into-your-favorite-installer-images/22