Re: [nlug] Linux Mint and Virtual Ethernet Connections

2014-07-15 Thread Jack Coats
Thanks to everyone. It gives me a path to go research. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: > The term you want to search for is subinterface. I'm not strong in Deb > so I can't really help much further, except that it looked to me like > googling for "linux mint subinterface" g

Re: [nlug] Linux Mint and Virtual Ethernet Connections

2014-07-15 Thread Cindy Yoho
I have no knowledge of Linux Mint, but in CentOS this is done in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Create a file for each NIC or virtual interface. The first will probably already be there called ifcfg-eth0. Add ifcfg-eth0:1,ifcfg-eth0:2, and so on. The real NIC will have a hardware address (HW

[nlug] Linux Mint and Virtual Ethernet Connections

2014-07-15 Thread Jack Coats
Back when Slackware was a 0.9.6 or so, I set up virtual ethernet connections. So I had eth0, eth0:1 eth0.2 eth0.3 etc. But I can't figure out how I did that. Also need to set different routing for each. Suggestions on how to do it or where to RTFM (Read The Fine Manual) are appreciated. Situati

Re: Standard implementation engines; was Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& PXE install

2014-07-15 Thread Howard White
On 07/15/2014 03:36 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: Saying puppet is for people who can't rsync a bash script is like saying DNS is for people who can't rsync a hosts file. -Blake sh! I'm trying to kill off an /etc/hosts file from the retiring server. Don't give me away! :) Howard --

Re: Standard implementation engines; was Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& PXE install

2014-07-15 Thread Blake Dunlap
The advantage of puppet is the ongoing control, and object dependency management opposed to deploy once user automation like a bash script / ks script. Saying puppet is for people who can't rsync a bash script is like saying DNS is for people who can't rsync a hosts file. They both have their use

Re: Standard implementation engines; was Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& PXE install

2014-07-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Yeah it's a tough call. You mentioned that you don't do this very often, but when you DO have to setup new systems, you also said that the scripts are out of date almost immediately. So now, every time you provision a new set of boxes, you have to also manage a code base. Payroll was always the bi

Standard implementation engines; was Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& PXE install

2014-07-15 Thread Howard White
On 07/15/2014 03:16 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: not to go too far into the weeds, but I'm not sure I agree with "puppet is for people that can't rsync" and while I get the gist of that statement, having a standard toolkit (puppet, chef, whathaveyou) scales much better. It's the "who will run o

Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& CentOS 6.5!!; was Re: PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
not to go too far into the weeds, but I'm not sure I agree with "puppet is for people that can't rsync" and while I get the gist of that statement, having a standard toolkit (puppet, chef, whathaveyou) scales much better. It's the "who will run our shit if you get hit by a bus" situation. or the "l

Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& CentOS 6.5!!; was Re: PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Drew from Zhrodague
On 7/15/14 3:56 PM, Howard White wrote: On 07/15/2014 02:51 PM, Kent Perrier wrote: Have you looked at installing cobbler and letting that take care of the details? Just wondering. In the best of all worlds, I would have [ puppet | chef | spacewalk | cobbler | wtf ]. I'm a one-handed-wallpa

Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& CentOS 6.5!!; was Re: PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Howard White
On 07/15/2014 02:51 PM, Kent Perrier wrote: Have you looked at installing cobbler and letting that take care of the details? Just wondering. In the best of all worlds, I would have [ puppet | chef | spacewalk | cobbler | wtf ]. I'm a one-handed-wallpaper-hanger here... Howard -- -- You r

Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& CentOS 6.5!!; was Re: PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Kent Perrier
Have you looked at installing cobbler and letting that take care of the details? Just wondering. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Howard White wrote: > On 07/15/2014 02:07 PM, Howard White wrote: > >> ARG!!! Surely this is old news to somebody out there -- PLEASE! >> >> We've been installing

[nlug] ~!@#$%^& CentOS 6.5!!; was Re: PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Howard White
On 07/15/2014 02:07 PM, Howard White wrote: ARG!!! Surely this is old news to somebody out there -- PLEASE! We've been installing operating systems via PXE here a long time. We are retiring our CentOS 5 (.8 32 bit) tftpboot server and I am just now breaking in (or down...) the replacement Cent

[nlug] PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Howard White
ARG!!! Surely this is old news to somebody out there -- PLEASE! We've been installing operating systems via PXE here a long time. We are retiring our CentOS 5 (.8 32 bit) tftpboot server and I am just now breaking in (or down...) the replacement CentOS 6 (.5 64 bit) tftpboot server. I've go