How to remove LACP support from iPXE?

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(2016-04-01 21:25)NiKiZe Wrote:  What kind of issues is it causing for you? Maybe it is something that can, and should be fixed instead?

There's no problem with the implementation that needs to be fixed. The issue is the configuration of the switch ports: When there's no LACP speaker, they present a single VLAN with no 802.1Q tags. When an LACP speaker appears (after the OS loads - until I started using iPXE), the list of available VLANs changes because the LAG logical interface carries different VLANs than the individual members of the LAG when they're operating independently.

I do this to isolate the boot environment from the production environment without requiring changes to the switch port configuration.

The switch sends an LACP PDU ~30 seconds after the link comes up. It took me a long time to figure out why download of my initrd was failing after about 200MB! It was because the VLAN was suddenly withdrawn from the interface, because the aggregation had formed.

Configuring the switch ports to do LACP in passive mode would probably have accomplished the same thing.

I wonder if the problem I was having isn't the same as this problem.