Re: Multiple interfaces

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Before I go and try it, can anyone tell me what will happen if I use
>Etherboot on a system with multiple identical PCI network interfaces?
>
>I am hoping that it will send out the BOOTP requests on all interfaces
>and listen to responses on all, then go with the interface that it
>receives a reply on.
>
>Alternatively, can I deterministically expect that it will always use
>a particular interface (eg. the first one it sees on the PCI bus - is
>this deterministic anyway?)

I think it will pick the first PCI network device it can drive and use
that. It definitely does not use multiple interfaces.
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