Re: Problem with multiple cards

[Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>]

Giuseppe Patane' writes:
| 
| I have been running my cluster of diskless machines with one DLink 530-TX
| for each machine and using netboot 0.8.1., BOOTP and TFTP for booting
| them. Now, I have upgraded all of the machines and each of them has four
| DLink 530-TX. I would like to continue to use netboot and I was thinking
| to use it just for configuring the first card (eth0). The other cards
| (eth1,eth2,eth3) would also be configured by using BOOTP, but after the
| end of the boot procedure. Unfortunately, what was working with a single
| nic doesn't work any more just by adding a second one and I get the
| following errore message:

FYI, I added code to FreeBSD to "wire" down the NIC the use for BOOTP.
The probe order of NICs could be different then netboot uses.  I don't
know if this is an issue or not for you.  I don't know if Linux has the
ability to define which NIC to use for BOOTP and root fs.

Doug A.
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