FAI 4 - forcing dracut/dhcp to specific interface

[Dirk Geschke]

Hi Mike & Thomas,

>     > I'm using FAI 4 to install debian on a device that has 6 ethernet interfaces on it.  Per the installation walkthrough
>     > documentation, it looks like FAI 4 is designed to iterate through the interfaces, trying each one until dhcp gets an
>     > IP.
> This is dracut and not FAI itself that scans all your network devices.

maybe one can add this to the append line:

   ip=<interface>:{dhcp|on|any|dhcp6|auto6}[:[<mtu>][:<macaddr>]]

At least it is documented here:

   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#_network

So I guess a

    ip=eth0:dhcp

should do the job? But I did never test it...

Best regards

Dirk

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