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I can successfully PXE-boot the blades in a Supermicro SuperServer 5037MC-H8TRF. However if my PXE server is not currently up, the blades try to get a DHCP on each interface once before the boot agent gives up and asks you to press any key to try again.

The PXE-boot agent is Intel boot agent GE v1.3.81.

Is there a way of setting this so that the machines will continually cycle through their NICs attempting to PXE-boot indefinitely?

Darryl Turner
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If you do that you would be creating an endless source of broadcast traffic (DHCPDISCOVERY packets) and no one really wants that; that's why after an attempt to PXE boot on every NIC the firmware stops and wait for user input. You won't be able to change that behavior on well designed firmware.

Pat
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