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hadi57

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diskless solution for internet cafe
« on: February 03, 2017, 01:24:25 pm »
hi

how to setup a diskless solution for Internet cafe with opnsense.
help really appreciated

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Re: diskless solution for internet cafe
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2017, 01:59:31 pm »
If by diskless you also mean USB or SD card-less, then you'll get to PXE booting using NFS.
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Re: diskless solution for internet cafe
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2017, 03:56:55 pm »
And for that, you will require a NFS server, a TFTP server and you have to enter the server filenames as well as its IP into the DHCP configuration.
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Re: diskless solution for internet cafe
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2017, 10:31:29 pm »
thanks for the reply

is there a link that shows in detail how to do that, i am trying to convince one user no to use windows server and move to opnsense as better alternative

thanks again
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Re: diskless solution for internet cafe
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2017, 10:47:35 am »
OPNsense is a firewall and not a PXE bootserver, however you are still cheaper if you use a RPI for that.

Install atftpd on it you will have a TFTP server, where you can boot from, the next thing is setting up a directory as a NFS root for your server. The load should not be so large that RPI would not be able to handle it if you don't start all of them at once. You should be able to use the DHCP server of OPNsense for that.
BTW: This has also the advantage, that you can chroot into the directory and apply updates (if the architecture matches).
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