[f-nsp] Interesting DHCP/netboot problem

[Frederic Jaeckel]

On 6/23/10 3:52 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
> * 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.

3) shut down the port of the backup/second interface? ;)

--Frederic