Hi David: Did you PXE-boot your client nodes? Their mac addresses won't show up unless they are PXE-booted.
Cheers, Bernard P.S. OSCAR works by creating images of your client nodes and pushing them to the clients - so you are not expected to install any OS on the client nodes, OSCAR takes care of this for you... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Lynum > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:12 > To: Jason Brechin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar 3.0 - Setup Networking problem > > Jason, > > Thanks a lot. That makes sense. My problem now is that in > 'setup networking' after pressing the button to 'start > collecting macs', the mac address of my (1) node doesn't show > up. No mac address show up. > Both the head node and my client node can see each other when > I ping one from the other. I can ssh from one to the other > without a problem. Have any ideas? > > Thanks, > > David > > > > >The GUI is reflecting the setup on the nodes. The nodes > will be set up > >with eth0 using the IP listed. > > > >David Lynum wrote: > > > >>Dear List, > >> > >>I'm setting up Oscar 3.0 with RH9. I have two nics, eth0 & > eth1, in > >>the head node. eth0 is my "public network", my corporate LAN, and > >>eth1 is for my "private or cluster" LAN. In the "Setup Networking" > >>screen Oscar has the "private" LAN setup on eth0. When I installed > >>RH9 from scratch on the head node, I have each nic its own > ip based, > >>ie eth0's ip is based on my corporate LAN address, and eth1 is > >>192.168.0.1. But within the Oscar GUI, eth0 is configured with the > >>private LAN address. Now the interesting this is that in X Window > >>terminal I can see the messages that Oscar is creating. > Here's copy > >>of the X Window terminal from when I was in Setup Networking: > >> > >>============================================================ > ========== > >>======= == Running step 6 of the OSCAR wizard: Setup networking > >>============================================================ > ========== > >>======= > >> > >>--> Step 6: Launching background ping > >>--> Step 6: Starting to listen to network: > /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth1 > >>--> -n -e -l > >>WARNING: pinging broadcast address > >>tcpdump: listening on eth1 > >> > >>29 packets received by filter > >>0 packets dropped by kernel > >>--> Step 6: Stopped listening to network > >>tcpdump: no process killed > >>Attempting to kill 12701 > >>tcpdump: no process killed > >>--> Step 6: Stopped listening to network Step 6: Completed > >>--> successfully > >> > >>But again, the GUI has eth0 mac= and eth0 ip=192.168.0.2. What's > >>going on here? I'm starting 'install_cluster" on eth1, ie > >>"install_cluster eth1". > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>David > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------- > >>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux > >>tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo > >>technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > >>administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638 > &op=click > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Oscar-users mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux > >tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo > >technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > >administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > >_______________________________________________ > >Oscar-users mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free > Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO > of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to > system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users