pixie
TFTP and HTTP server specifically designed to serve iPXE ROMs and scripts.
pixie comes embedded with the following ROMs provided by the iPXE project:
undionly.kpxe- for legacy (BIOS) machinesipxe.efi- for 64-bit EFI machinesipxe32.efi- for 32-bit EFI machines
It comes with an embedded iPXE script, which is used to chainload into per-machine iPXE scripts or access an iPXE shell. It has no dependencies, everything is in one binary.
Usage
Run the pixie binary using default ports, specifying path to store iPXE scripts:
pixie -d /srv/ipxe
Define iPXE script for a machine with the MAC-address 00:11:22:33:44:55:
cat >/srv/ipxe/00-11-22-33-44-55.ipxe <
Configure pixie as the next-server on the DHCP server.
Example for ISC dhcpd:
option client-architecture code 93 = unsiged integer 16;
if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
filename "chain.ipxe";
} elsif option client-architecture = 00:00 {
filename "undionly.kpxe";
} else {
filename "ipxe.efi";
}
next-server 192.168.0.100;
Example for dnsmasq:
dhcp-match=set:ipxe,175
dhcp-vendorclass=BIOS,PXEClient:Arch:00000
dhcp-boot=tag:!ipxe,tag:BIOS,undionly.kpxe,pixie,192.168.0.100
dhcp-boot=tag:!ipxe,tag:!BIOS,ipxe.efi,pixie,192.168.0.100
dhcp-boot=tag:ipxe,chain.ipxe,pixie,192.168.0.100
In both these examples pixie runs on 192.168.0.100
When a machine with the MAC-address of 00:11:22:33:44:55 now attempts to PXE boot, the following will happen:
- The machine queries DHCP (standard procedure from PXE)
- The DHCP server will instruct the machine to download a new ROM from pixie (
next-server) using TFTP
- if the machine is running BIOS it will ask for
undionly.kpxe
- if the machine is running EFI it will ask for
ipxe.efi
- The machine downloads and runs the iPXE ROM from pixie
- The machine queries DHCP again (this time from iPXE)
- The DHCP server will instruct the machine to download the
chain.ipxe file from pixie using TFTP
- The machine downloads and runs the
chain.ipxe script
- The machine chainloads into its iPXE script from pixie using HTTP
- The machine boots the operating system
See --help for more options.
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