Re: issue with detecting the right interface
The autodiscovery seems to be flawed, in that if it finds a link on
the wrong NIC, it tries to get a DHCP lease and gets stuck. We can
always keep auto discovery in addition to this patch. For example, if
there is a BOOTIF parameter, use this mechanism, otherwise use the
auto discovery.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Joseph Gunn <armadefuego@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:56:56 -0700
> Kash <melbogia@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here are the changes I made to scripts/live file to support BOOTIF. It
>> doesn't have code to fall back to something else if "IPAPPEND 2" is
>> missing.
>>
> Seems that this patch disables autodiscovery of an interface in favor of a
> machine specific boot parameter...
>
> Is this an acceptable solution?
>> Kashif
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Baumann
>> <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> wrote:
>> > On 09/01/2011 08:43 PM, Kash wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I edited scripts/live and added code to get the MAC address from
>> >> BOOTIF option of pxelinux, which is what we are using. And then just
>> >> iterating over all the interfaces and using the one that matches the
>> >> MAC address from /proc/cmdline.
>> >
>> > nice, would you mind sending a patch?
>> >
>> >> This works great for our environment
>> >> but it might not be too portable because not everyone is using
>> >> pxelinux.
>> >
>> > that's not so much of a problem; we can always make things 'specific' to one
>> > mode of operation.
>> >
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