Unable to Enable PXE Boot on Secondary Interface in MAAS

If you mind, can you provide a feedback about what makes you think so? What do you find misleading and what would you have done differently?

I believe there is a confusion in the above discussion, although I may be wrong…

I was reading the tickmark ✓ in the PXE column of the MAAS interface as “MAAS is exposing PXE boot services (DHCP config, TFTP server etc.) at this interface”.

But from some of the replies, it seems that it could mean instead “MAAS has detected that this NIC has PXE capabilities” (supposedly because it saw PXE identified DHCP packets from that NIC or it has access to the machine and could identify it from the model or something like that).

These are very different meanings! Could someone clarify whether the tickmark has the first or the second meaning (I suppose it’s the second?)

Also, I would be interested in how you could configure and verify that MAAS is exposing PXE boot services for a specific subnet via a specific NIC on the host machine, I believe this is the question the OP and other posters above have.

The tickmark on an interface means that the machine booted from that interface the last time