Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi again, Carsten Aulbert schrieb: Yesterday I reinstalled a computer several times, tuning ssh settings and other customizations, however, I'm not aware to change something substantial, but suddenly it seems the wrong entry in pxeboot.cfg is modified: grep 'disable'

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:49:29 +0100, Carsten Aulbert cars...@welcomes-you.com said: Yesterday I reinstalled a computer several times, tuning ssh settings and other customizations, however, I'm not aware to change something substantial, but suddenly it seems the wrong entry in

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:44:35 +0100, Carsten Aulbert cars...@welcomes-you.com said: $ grep 'IPADDR' install-200903*/boot.log install-20090302_191531/boot.log:IPADDR='10.20.30.3' install-20090302_192700/boot.log:IPADDR='172.28.20.3'

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi again, Thomas Lange schrieb: grep DHCPOFFER */dhclient.log will show you which DHCP server had sent the IP address. as expected, sometimes one is faster than the other # grep DHCPOFFER install-200903*/dhclient.log install-20090302_191531/dhclient.log:DHCPOFFER from 10.10.16.78

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:10:57 +0100, Carsten Aulbert cars...@welcomes-you.com said: as expected, sometimes one is faster than the other # grep DHCPOFFER install-200903*/dhclient.log install-20090302_191531/dhclient.log:DHCPOFFER from 10.10.16.78

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Sorry, rewriting my email again (again wrong from address, sorry Thomas, it's now sitting in the moderator queue) Thomas Lange schrieb: On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:34:31 +0100, Carsten Aulbert cars...@welcomes-you.com said: Well, we do. One for the subnet on eth0 (10.0.0.0/8, data network,

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Ralf Utermann
Carsten Aulbert wrote: [...] The problem lies with the initramfs which is probing all found NICs simultaneously with DHCP (when ip=dhcp is given) and then the fastest or slowest reply survives in boot.log. To solve this one could o disable all but one MAC for DHCP, but that's not really a

Re: Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Ralf Utermann schrieb: if you have several nodes with identical hardware setup (like identical motherboard with 2 onboard ports, an additional dual-port NIC always in the same slot) you could add an udev rules file to nfsroot and initrd (using a initramfs-tools/hooks script), where

Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

2009-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi, after this subject I seem to have caught you attention :) First the success part: There seems to be a bug in initramfs-tools in Lenny which manifests itself when booting a machine with multiple NICs (Thomas might remember mny query on IRC some time ago). The solution is relatively simple,