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The PXE Boot Network
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You can set up a |PXE| Boot network for booting all nodes to allow a
non-standard management network configuration.

The internal management network is used for |PXE| booting of new hosts and the
|PXE| Boot network is not required. However, there are scenarios where the
internal management network cannot be used for |PXE| booting of new hosts. For
example, if the internal management network needs to be on a |VLAN|-tagged
network for deployment reasons, or if it must support IPv6, you must configure
the optional untagged |PXE| boot network for |PXE| booting of new hosts using
IPv4.

.. note::
    |prod| does not support IPv6 |PXE| Booting.

See :ref:`The PXE Boot Network <network-planning-the-pxe-boot-network>` for
details.