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If a storage cluster node is connected to a network switch, ensure verify PortFast is configured on the switch ports leading to each node. Otherwise, the extended time delay can prevent netboot from delivering the Swarm image to a PXE-enabled node in a timely manner.

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  • To set up the ISC DHCP daemon for redundancy, see "Failover with ISC DHCP" at madboa.com/geek/dhcp-failover.

  • To provide redundancy at the network booting layer, use the primary and secondary DHCP servers as TFTP servers.
    When setting up the DHCP servers, set the next-server parameter in each server to specify a separate IP address. When the primary or secondary DHCP server answers a DHCP query, it also handles the PXE boot.

  • To prevent any network interruptions, ensure that verify the TFTP boot servers are located in the same broadcast domain (or VLAN) as the Swarm nodes or enable a DHCP relay server on the VLAN.

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