mike- eth0 is not necessary the default interface.. i just put it there as an example because it's common that eth0 is the primary interface.
look at the output of "ifconfig -a".. the first interface listen will be the interface that gmond communicates on. hope this helps.. -matt Today, Mike Snitzer wrote forth saying... > All, > > While getting ganglia 2.2.1 going on a cluster I noticed gmond -h stated: > > -i, --mcast_if > set the interface gmond is to multicast on > default: first interface e.g. "eth0" > > this however does not appear to be the case; as the multicast was going > out eth1. So I was only seeing the master node in the php-rrd-client. > > As soon as I used: gmond -i eth0 all the nodes in the cluster were > viewable through the php-rrd-client. > > I've yet to get around to hacking the gmond source; but figured > I'd first mail the list to see if others have seen eth0 not being used as > the default multicast interface. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general >