Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
when booting thin clients with multiple network cards, initramfs-tools/ipconfig
have a hard time figuring out which interface to use. attached is a patch which
sets DEVICE to the interface matching the mac address that pxelinux passes when
using the IPAPPEND 2 or 3 options.
diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions
index 77de8f3..ec0ffd2 100644
--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -258,6 +258,19 @@ parse_numeric() {
configure_networking()
{
+
+ # pxelinux sets BOOTIF to a value based on the mac address of the
network
+ # card used to PXE boot, so use this value for DEVICE rather than a
+ # hard-coded device name from initramfs.conf. this facilitates network
+ # booting when machines may have multiple network cards.
+ if [ -n "${BOOTIF}" ]; then
+ normal_mac=$(echo $BOOTIF | sed -e 's,^01-,,g' -e 's,-,:,g' |
tr [a-z] [A-Z])
+ new_device=$(ifconfig -a | awk "/$normal_mac/"'{print $1}')
+ if [ -n "$new_device" ]; then
+ DEVICE="$new_device"
+ fi
+ fi
+
# networking already configured thus bail out
[ -n "${DEVICE}" ] && [ -e /tmp/net-"${DEVICE}".conf ] && return 0
live well,
vagrant
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