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    PXE boot WDS through VPN tunnel

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      GeorgeCZ58
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      Hello, is there anybody who tried to deploy windows image from WDS throught VPN tunnel?
      I set Network booting on DHCP. When I connect computer network, I receive PXE boot, everything looks fine, but it is slow as a hell.

      Is there any way how to optimalize boot from remote WDS? Thanks!

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        What speeds are you seeing across the tunnel? What's the latency across the tunnel? High latency across a layer 2 connection can cause significant issues.

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          GeorgeCZ58
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          HI, speed through tunnel is not bad, the problem seems related to TFTP protocol that act very slow through VPN? I tried to run TFTPD package, but wasnt able to upload 500MB wim file. I am not expert at this, so dont know if there is any other possibility how to.. or I will have to just deploy another windows server on remote site..

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Indeed TFTP is, deliberately, very simple. It can be dramatically affected by any latency. You could test a tftp transfer directly and see what speeds you get. If it's bad though there's no much you can do other than use a local server instead.

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