Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> writes: > On 13.07.2017 18:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The workaround was a bunch of bullshit in our install process to try to >> figure out which NIC got the DHCP response and then pin that one to >> eth0 for subsequent boots. (Which is basically what udev persistent >> naming did.) > At least when you netboot there's a protocol supported by PXELINUX to > pass a BOOTIF= option to the kernel with the MAC address of the NIC that > performed the PXE boot. And d-i is supposed to then DHCP on that > particular interface. But if that all is properly persisted onto the > final system without intervention, that I don't know[1]. Yeah, we were using FAI, but I believe that's the basic mechanism we were using and then found a way to use it to generate the udev rule to do persistent naming. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
