Re: [Etherboot-users] Multiple Identical Adapters : How do I specify which to use ?

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Vasil Vasilev <vas...@sy...> writes:

> I don't this there is such a facility at the moment. You can edit the code and
> modify the loop that discovers the usable NICs. I can give you some hints if
> you want to do this.
> 
> Ideally there will be away to use all NICs in sequence, chosing a
> particular NIC, disabling some, and so on, but it hasn't been done yet. If you
> feel interested, please go ahead. On the developers list there was a lot of
> discussion about this sort of functionality at some point. I would like
> something like this, so it is on my todo list but fairly low down on a long
> one.

The code for the most part is already in 5.1.x.

Currently the development version will cycle through all of the relevant
nics whose drivers are built in.

In addition there are some special boot order options you can play
with to specify a particular nic.

The options are cmos settings under LinuxBIOS but still remain
as compile time settings in other environments.

Eric