Ken Yap writes: | | >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. Yep that is what it does. I looks for the first PCI device it matches and then uses it. Doug A. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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