Dual NIC = hang

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:44:32PM -0800, kegstand wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm trying to FAI a machine with two NICs, only one of which I'm
> > using.  It netboots, but hangs at:
> >
> > IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:e0:81:45:ed:8a mtu 1500 DHCP
> > RARP
> >
> > That's never going to answer, because that's not the NIC I'm
> > using, but it never times out either.  How do I get things past
> > this point?
> >
> 
> I have blown many hours on this.  You should try to disable one of
> your NICs in the bios .

Several hundred of our machines have two NICs we actually use both
of, so no.

> I ended up making a fai config for
> 
> machine-nic1
> 
> and machine-nic2
> 
> the machine would intiially netboot off of machine-nic1, then
> further in the fai process it would dhcp off of machine-nic2
> 
> after everything was done installing, I would delete all tftpd
> pxelinux files except for "default"

Ouch.

Thanks.

-Robin

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