Correct, BIOS order. installnic does get passed to the stateless boot. Honestly, I haven't had use for using installnic differently than primarynic in a long time. Primarynic I generally leave empty (defaulting to BOOTIF from firmware behavior) except when doing install over omnipath or infiniband. I usually consider the high speed network to be 'neither' and just think of primarynic as the deployment nic. I think this was born out of dealing with a few scenarios where a two-nic scheme was too limiting so I just used one of the 'hard' baked nics and used more open ended facilities for 'the rest of the nics'. In short, I am going to be rusty on the use of the installnic attribute, but I do see it in the code.
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas HUMMEL <thomas.hum...@pasteur.fr> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:21 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] xnba, noderes nics and BOOTIF On 1/22/19 3:55 PM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > So BOOTIF is expanded by xnba (or elilo with xnba) to be 'the mac address of > whatever network adapter successfully performed PXE'. The expansion is done > client side prior to linux running. Thanks for your answer. So it goes like this : - the node firmware does its native PXE - the node receive xnba - xnba tries serveral PXE (in what order ? BIOS order ?) and expands BOOTIF for what follows correct ? > There is some extended syntax to support multiple network cards that can be > tricky, so we used client-side expansion of the mac address where possible. > Also supporting multiple interfaces is a bit easier. Are you talking about https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/domain_name_resolution/domain_name_resolution.html#specifying-additional-network-interfaces-for-cluster-nodes ? What about installnic in noderes table ? Is this for stateful only ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
