wizard210 Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 I'm trying to netboot into deploy studio across vlans and am having some trouble. Looking at the logs this is what I see. Any help would be appreciated. I have IP Helpers on my switches pointing to my netboot server. Server is El Capitan 10.11.15 Jun 22 13:24:57 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,c:4d:e9:a9:67:7c NetBoot005 arch=i386 sysid=iMac14,2 Jun 22 13:24:57 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: NetBoot: [1,c:4d:e9:a9:67:7c] BSDP ACK sent 172.16.9.116 pktsize 301 Jun 22 13:25:00 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,c:4d:e9:a9:67:7c NetBoot005 arch=i386 sysid=iMac14,2 Jun 22 13:25:00 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: NetBoot: [1,c:4d:e9:a9:67:7c] BSDP ACK sent 172.16.9.116 pktsize 301 Jun 22 13:25:04 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,c:4d:e9:a9:67:7c NetBoot005 arch=i386 sysid=iMac14,2 Jun 22 13:25:04 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: NetBoot: [1,c:4d:e9:a9:67:7c] BSDP ACK sent 172.16.9.116 pktsize 301 Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: server name srv-mac.clasd.net Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: interface en0: ip 172.16.2.8 mask 255.255.0.0 Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: dhcp: re-reading lease list Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: bsdpd: re-reading configuration Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: bsdpd: shadow file size will be set to 48 megabytes Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: bsdpd: age time 00:15:00 Jun 22 13:43:32 srv-mac bootpd[93226]: AFPUserList_init: group com.apple.access_afp does not exist Show less 1
Julian Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Is your netboot server your DHCP server? The iphelper address is for allowing computers to speak to the DHCP server.
wizard210 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 no the netboot server is not the DHCP Server.
Davit2005 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 If you havent already you need to add the ip helper address to th vLAN that you have the client on. Your DHCP, WDS and NETBOOT servers can all be added together without issue.
wizard210 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 If you havent already you need to add the ip helper address to th vLAN that you have the client on. Your DHCP, WDS and NETBOOT servers can all be added together without issue. I already did all that. I added the ip helper to each switch that the vlan is on. The ip helper is pointing to the netboot server. I also created a deploy studio Bootable usb Bootable drive. When I use that I get request timed out when trying to connect to server. What's weird is I can ping the server and the server can ping the client.
Davit2005 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Do you have more than one core switch?? We have layer 3 edge switches but only the core has the IP Routing enabled and this is where we have put the ip helper addresses. Jus wondering what is the gateway of the netboot server set to, is it the ip address of the vlan it sits in of the core switch??
wizard210 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 gateway is the IP address of the subinterface I created on my cisco router.
Davit2005 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 gateway is the IP address of the subinterface I created on my cisco router. Is your cisco router doing the IntervLAN routing between the vLANS. If so maybe something is blocking the traffic??
wizard210 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 I checked and I didn't see anything in the config that would be blocking traffic.
FN-GM Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 gateway is the IP address of the subinterface I created on my cisco router. You need to add the IP helper on the same sub interface on the Cisco router that your DG is configured. Putting on the edge switches will do nothing.
wizard210 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 You need to add the IP helper on the same sub interface on the Cisco router that your DG is configured. Putting on the edge switches will do nothing. So I don't need any ip helpers on my switches that the clients are connected to, just the router sub interfaces that I have set for the vlan?
Mustang Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Can you netboot the mac if its connected to the same switch as the server and in the same vlan as the server?
FN-GM Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 So I don't need any ip helpers on my switches that the clients are connected to, just the router sub interfaces that I have set for the vlan? That is correct. Can you netboot the mac if its connected to the same switch as the server and in the same vlan as the server? Yep, no additional config is required. If everything is in the same VLAN you will be able to do it on other switches.
Mustang Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Yep, no additional config is required. If everything is in the same VLAN you will be able to do it on other switches. I know that should work thats why i asked, from the first post is wasn't stated if wizard210 had ever had netboot working.
Mustang Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 You can also netboot from terminal, using this method doesn't require the helpers and will prove if your setup is correct. bless --netboot --server bsdp://10.0.0.1; restart
wizard210 Posted June 24, 2016 Author Posted June 24, 2016 I know that should work thats why i asked, from the first post is wasn't stated if wizard210 had ever had netboot working. Yes I had it working on mountain lion. I then updated to Mavericks then El capitan and everything stopped working. So I blew away the server and reinstalled everything in El capitan 10.11.15 At this point I also vlan out my lab computers. Ever since that things haven't worked.
Julian Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 Try setting the IP helper address to point to the DHCP server, so that the client can get a IP address, then set the DHCP server options (look at options 66, and 67) so that the client can find your Bootserver (sorry I am not a Apple expert, but this is what required for PXE booting).
Mustang Posted June 27, 2016 Posted June 27, 2016 Yes I had it working on mountain lion. I then updated to Mavericks then El capitan and everything stopped working. So I blew away the server and reinstalled everything in El capitan 10.11.15 At this point I also vlan out my lab computers. Ever since that things haven't worked. If you connect your mac to the SAME subnet as the server can you netboot since you have rebuilt it?
Mustang Posted June 27, 2016 Posted June 27, 2016 Try setting the IP helper address to point to the DHCP server, so that the client can get a IP address, then set the DHCP server options (look at options 66, and 67) so that the client can find your Bootserver (sorry I am not a Apple expert, but this is what required for PXE booting). Apple's Macs use BSDP and don't use option 66,67. Option 66,67 are not required for or even supported for PXE booting and you should not be using those options for PC clients, adding ip helpers is the supported method.
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