[f-nsp] Interesting DHCP/netboot problem

[Niels Bakker]

* georgeb at gmail.com (George B.) [Wed 23 Jun 2010, 01:03 CEST]:
>The fundamental problem is that at net-boot, the two ports are 
>trunked on the switch but are not trunked on the server at that 
>point and it appears that the BIOS brings up all NICs during 
>netboot.  Has anyone managed to work around this?

I see two ways out: 1) use a third port on the server and the switch 
dedicated to this; or 2) use LACP to bring up individual ports in an 
aggregated link rather than always have them as such.


	-- Niels.

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