Hey, I wanted to try out iVentoy on my network, however I want to keep my dhcp server (OpenWRT which uses dnsmasq). I've set the option to external DHCP and turned on the server. The file name and next-server options are set correctly, the client identifies it right (as seen in the screenshot) however iPXE loaded from ventoy tries to pull further files from the gateway and not from the next-server's IP
I have a server which is running Pi-Hole with DHCP enabled. I would like to run iVentoy on the same machine.
So I switched DHCP server mode to external (hoping it would disable the DHCP server ran by iVentoy) and clicked start. Which resulted in iVentoy telling me that it could not bind the port:
Code:
2023/06/30 20:34:42.135 [HTTP] API request: <{"method":"start_server","ip":"10.69.42.42","mask":"255.255.255.0","gw":"10.69.42.1","pool_begin":"10.69.42.200","pool_end":"10.69.42.219"}>
2023/06/30 20:34:42.135 [DHCP] DHCP port 67(UDP) is in use now.
What works (internal DHCP):
- PXE asks for DHCP -> gets anwer from main DHCP
- gets IP from main DHCP-Server
- sends iventoy_loader_16000
- asks iVentoy DHCP for new IP
Boot successful
Windows 11 install successful (even with unattend.xml, only partitioning was manual, from boot to login)
BUT after i login to windows i get only the ip from iVentoy-DHCP and therefore i cant access the internet cause of my very complicated DNS setup (gateway and dhcp is 254, nameserver is 1, a pihole-dns)
Conclusion my OpenWRT main DHCP and iVentoy are fighting for the World dominance, not good
Idea use external function from iVentoy but cant get it to boot since i don't know which file i should serve or which options other than 66,67,150 i need to get it to boot.
Next Problem is i have to restart iVentoy after a successful PXE boot, because if in the webgui the device is listed, i get TFTP file not found
FEATURE REQUEST:
- possibility to set a nameserver in DHCP options (option '6')
BUGS FOUND:
- iVentoy does not save gateway...
- iVentoy forgets Auto Install Script settings after Image refresh (nags me hard)
Any Ideas welcome
EDIT: for the interrested, the unattend.xml is attached, have to change to your language values (mine is German), your license key and username+password and maybe Windows 11 version as mine is Pro
Lincense key inside is the official Windows 11 Pro volume key (puplic on Microsoft site)
As you can see ive tried also the native "libevent" shipped with debian by simply removing it from the lin64 folder but the same issue.
Is there a way to completely disable the internal DHCP, i tried using "ipxe.bios.0" while setting external DHCP but no success.
Thanks in advance
Phil2Sat
EDIT: It seems iVentoy needs at least two CPU cores, which is in case of a virtual environment not that good.
BTW: the gateway ip gets not saved and i have to set it all the time.
