Hi. On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:53:05PM -0400, Christopher David Howie wrote: > I have a system with dropbear-initramfs to unlock crypto containers during > boot. The system has a second NIC that I will be using to attach iSCSI disks > to > the system, some of which / may wind up moving to. (/boot will remain > attached locally.) > > It seems that there is support for iSCSI during boot, however it's not clear > to me how to get the kernel to bring up _both_ NICs so that dropbear and > open-iscsi can run on different ones. (Based on my research, the ip= kernel > parameter can only be specified once.) > > Is there a supported way to configure two interfaces in the initrd to > accomplish this?
In a way, yes, but the kernel commandline is unsuitable for this. What you need is a init-premount script (see initramfs-tools(7)) which configures either second or both NICs with "ip" from busybox or "udhcpc". Reco
