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Re: dropbear-initramfs possible with open-iscsi during boot, using different NICs?



On 10/22/19 2:57 AM, Reco wrote:
>> Is there a supported way to configure two interfaces in the initrd to accomplish this?
>
> In a way, yes, but the kernel commandline is unsuitable for this.
> What you need is a init-premount script (see initramfs-tools(7)) which
> configures either second or both NICs with "ip" from busybox or
> "udhcpc".

Thanks for this pointer. I'll set up a scratch VM to experiment with
these tools.

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