I had some problem with RHEL switching NIC names once (it is a known issue
with some dell servers) and I ended up just disabling the secondary nic on
the nodes (I didn't need it anyway).
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:59 AM, <geoffroy.val...@free.fr> wrote:
> Felipe,
>
> You should have sent me that patch! i will try to see what i can do to
> include that directly into OSCAR.
>
> Always remember that we are open to include any kind of modifications that
> can ease your specific case, especially if we can find a generic and clean
> way to do so. In your case, your patch does not seem to be intrusive, i
> think we can include something similar that will work in all cases.
>
> I will try to see what i can do about that...
>
> Regards,
>
> ----- Mail Original -----
> De: "Felipe Zipitria - INCO" <fz...@fing.edu.uy>
> À: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Envoyé: Lundi 16 Février 2009 09:47:28 GMT -05:00 USA/Canada - États de
> l'Est
> Objet: Re: [Oscar-users] Any success w/ 3C16479 switch & DG965GF mobos?
>
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> Chris,
>
> I had a similar problem, but maybe isn't the same as yours. My setup is
> with Dell 2950
> machines, with four Gb ethernet cards. Installation happens with no problem
> (In fact, I've
> made 20 installs until I've discovered the issue :().
>
> I think the problem could be systemimager. What heppened to me is that
> after installation,
> because of udev, network cards were randomly selected! I made a small patch
> to
> installation script for fixing the network card to eth0.
>
> You'll need three changes:
>
> - - In directory /var/lib/systemimager/images/<image>/etc/udev/rules.d
> Comment out file '60-net.rules'.
> Create a new file called '70-persistent-net.rules' with this example
> content:
> # BEGIN
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="MAC", NAME="eth0"
> # EOF
>
> The string "MAC" will be replaced by the installation script with the MAC
> of your ethernet
> adaptor.
>
> Next, you'll have to modify your
> '/var/lib/systemimager/scripts/<image>.master' script
> (around line #595). Copy your master file to 'master file'.orig
>
> - --- diff output ---
> 595,599c603
> < #[ -z $DEVICE ] && DEVICE=eth0
> < DEVICE=eth0
> <
> < > logmsg "--- FIXING ETH0 ---"
> < ETH0_ADDR=$(ifconfig | grep -B1 <your network prefix e.g. 192.168.1> |
> grep HWaddr | cut
> - -f11 -d' ' | sed -e 's/A/a/;s/B/b/;s/C/c/;s/D/d/;s/E/e/;s/F/f/;') # no tr
> available on
> busybox
> - ---
> > [ -z $DEVICE ] && DEVICE=eth0
> 618,630d621
> <
> < [TIME]
> < # Zone is the time zone
> < ZONE = America/Montevideo # replace with your TZ
> < # is the hardware clock in UTC / GMT or not
> < UTC = yes
> < #
> < # And we have USER EXITS now
> < #
> < [USEREXIT0]
> < CMD = sed
> < PARAMS = "-ie s/MAC/$ETH0_ADDR/
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules"
> <
> - --- end diff output ---
>
> Worked for me, but ymmv.
>
> Felipe.
>
> Chris Stevenson wrote:
> > Does anyone successfully run an OSCAR cluster where node (and master)
> > mobos are Intel's DG965GF (mine have Q6600's installed), which have
> > Intel's 82566 gigabit ethernet onboard, and a 3Com 3C16479 gigabit
> > baseline switch ("baseline switch 2824") to stitch it all together?
> >
> > I have been trying to build OSCAR 5.1rc1 and 6.0.x under Fedorae 9, 10
> and
> > CentOS 5.2 w/o success - the closest I get (for those who haven't been
> > following) is nodes successfully booting ala PXE and getting a full 12
> > minutes into being set-up, but then the process always dies during the
> > "finalizing..." step of the image (ostensibly when configurator is called
> > upon). I'm trying to rule out hardware issues, since these were
> > suggested.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ======================================================================
> > Christopher C Stevenson, C4063 office: (709) 737-2624
> > Dept. of Physics & Physical Oceanography fax: (709) 737-8739
> > Memorial University of Newfoundland
> > St. John's, NL, CANADA A1B 3X7
> > URL:
> > http://www.physics.mun.ca/~csteven<http://www.physics.mun.ca/%7Ecsteven>
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> > but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
> >
> >
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