[RFE] Specific boot NICs for Redfish
Bug #2043019 reported by
Dmitry Tantsur
This bug affects 2 people
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Bug Description
Currently, we tell the BMC to boot from network without indicating which network device to boot. This causes issues e.g. when there are other DHCP servers present (which is not desirable but sometimes happens) or when the firmware does not properly loop through NICs on boot.
Redfish allows booting a node from a specific UEFI device by setting:
System.
System.
The UEFI device path can be determined from EthernetInterfa
tags: | added: rfe |
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This would also be great for systems with many interfaces, where looping through all interfaces (for both IPv4 and IPv6) can take a long time.