A weird one we’ve seen a couple of times recently on OEM equipment being shipped from the factory built on AOS 6.8.1.
When you run Crashcart to configure IPs the task fails to complete, citing an inability to contact a Foundation url. We’re not using Foundation at this point.
We believed this was where the nodes were potentially imaged before leaving the factory but the foundation config was left intact – possibly Foundation Central – not dug much further.
The error was easy enough to deal with, we went hunting for the IP quoted in the url to see where it was configured and sure enough found it quite quickly.
As a test because hey it was already broken we removed the first_boot_config.json file and the crashcart then worked properly thereafter.
(we use the Crashcart to test the individual NIC pairs to work out which ones are LACP for Mgmt, and which ones are LACP for Payload networks before building)