On 17 Mar 2008 18:28:31 -0400, Kevin D. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not following the above. Where is the DHCP server for his > > cluster coming from? > > Somewhere on the corporate network, connected to via eth0.
Hmmm. I expect you're not talking DHCP relay. So... do you mean: Connect all cluster members, and the "primary computer", to the same physical network (broadcast domain). Let everybody get IP addresses from the corporate DHCP server. Also assign the primary and the cluster members IP addresses on a different IP network (but same broadcast domain). Thus letting everybody talk to everybody else, but keeping cluster traffic on a separate IP net for administrative convenience. Is that right? > Let me put it this way: my solution is quick ... I'm not trying to argue against your solution, I'm just trying to understand it. :-) >> And how do the cluster nodes reach the Internet? > > If they really have to... That was given as a requirement. :) > ... all of the clusters I am familiar with are relatively static. Okay, but even so, assuming a dedicated cluster network (broadcast domain) (and granted, that may be a bad assumption), I find DHCP makes even just the initial setup easier. Of course, I've setup more DHCP servers than I can count, so I find it "very easy" to configure DHCP at this point -- easier than configuring nodes by hand. I suppose if you didn't know DHCP already and you only had a handful of nodes, manual configuration would be easier than learning DHCP. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
