[9front] Booting a terminal from a fileserver

[9front] Booting a terminal from a fileserver

[Lorenzo Bivens]

Hi,

I've been trying to boot a terminal starting 9boot of the iso, and then giving it a fileserver address to boot from.

The fileserver is listening for incoming connections:
nobootprompt=local!/dev/sdF0/fscache -a tcp!*!17020

The user does exist in the fileserver

On the terminal, I fill in bootargs with tls!
terminal gets an IP
feed in the address for the fileserver, auth
and It stays there permanently... I can see the connection established on the server, but nothing else happens

I reckon this should be similar to pxe booting, without the network... I am sure I am missing something big.

Any pointers are welcomed!
Thanks

Re: [9front] Booting a terminal from a fileserver

[james palmer]

Quoth izaki@belaska.us:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to boot a terminal starting 9boot of the iso, and then 
> giving it a fileserver address to boot from.
> 
> The fileserver is listening for incoming connections:
> nobootprompt=local!/dev/sdF0/fscache -a tcp!*!17020
>

cwfs doesn't serve tls.
tls boot is provided /rc/bin/service/tcp17020,
which works as a tls encrypted proxy.
it just dials the file server on port 564 and wraps the connection with tlssrv.

you want:
nobootprompt=local!/dev/sdF0/fscache -a tcp!*!564

- james

Re: [9front] Booting a terminal from a fileserver

[Rodrigo G. López]

for tls, you should get the fs listening on tcp!*!564 first, then set
up a tlssrv(8) trampoline, like the one in /rc/bin/service/!?tcp17020
(where 9fs = 564, as shown in /lib/ndb/common).


-rodri

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 10:57 PM Lorenzo Bivens <izaki@belaska.us> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to boot a terminal starting 9boot of the iso, and then giving it a fileserver address to boot from.
>
> The fileserver is listening for incoming connections:
> nobootprompt=local!/dev/sdF0/fscache -a tcp!*!17020
>
> The user does exist in the fileserver
>
> On the terminal, I fill in bootargs with tls!
> terminal gets an IP
> feed in the address for the fileserver, auth
> and It stays there permanently... I can see the connection established on the server, but nothing else happens
>
> I reckon this should be similar to pxe booting, without the network... I am sure I am missing something big.
>
> Any pointers are welcomed!
> Thanks