Multiple Network Interfaces Howto

Motivation

You want to use FAI to install systems with two or more network interface cards (NIC).

Installing a client with two active interfaces usually causes trouble as the boot process hangs when ipconfig tries to set up the 'wrong' interface using DHCP when no DHCP server is present for the respective interface. Also, by default FAI sets up only one (i.e. the first) network interface dynamically with the following script of the FAIBASE class:

/var/lib/fai/config/scripts/FAIBASE/30-interface

Solution

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Analysis, Troubleshooting

Boot process stops at ipconfig (client installation over network)

Check which MAC address ipconfig is trying to set up. Typically, the related interface is not connected to a network that provides a DHCP address for that network card.

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