PXE boot with 2 NICs

Daniel Feenberg feenberg at nber.org
Wed Jan 15 00:44:19 UTC 2020



On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

> On 1/13/20 5:35 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
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> Ahhh... It's a netboot effectively.
>
> The FreeBSD kernel isn't involved in PXE.  PXE requests and downloads the 
> load images/configs.  The load images/configs then take over completely. PXE 
> if out of the picture at that point. PXE, based on the NIC MAC address/UUID 
> IS capable offering differing loads/configs.
>
Yes, I understand that FreeBSD kernel isn't involved in PXE. That is fine. 
I can PXE boot from the 1GBE port. But then I want to instruct the FreeBSD 
kernel to use the 10GBE port which does not support PXE booting.

Daniel Feenberg


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