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That did the trick ! Thanks.Another similar question, I tried doing a network boot on a third machine.It found the core and got issued the ip 192.168.80.2.However it wasn't able to mount the image correctly. I assume this is because the core only has one nic with ip 192.168.1.17 (and 192.168.80.1), i'd probably have to do something funky with the route table ?