Re: [OSR-devel] IPs in cluster.conf and manual startup

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 13:48:56 go...@bo... wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Mark Hlawatschek wrote:
> >> I'm having a problem with the way the ifcfg-eth* files are being handled
> >> for the initrd. My ifcfg-eth1 file doesn't get transferred across
> >> verbatim. This is a problem because I have to explicitly specify the
> >> HWADDR in my ifcfg files (therwise they come up on wrong subnets).
> >
> > The initrd creates new ifcfg-ethX files for the defined ethernet
> > interface for its internal use. I.e. for all <eth /> entries for the node
> > in the cluster.conf. These file are only valid inside the initrd.
>
> Sure, but the iSCSI interface has to be the same in root and initrd,
> otherwise it won't work.
>
> >> It looks as if mkinitrd removes some lines from the file, and this
> >> causes eth1 to be physical eth0, which puts it on the wrong subnet, and
> >> that means it can't see the iSCSI shares.  :-(
> >>
> >> I checked the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 in the initrd,
> >> and it is indeed lacking the HWADDR line (and a few others).
> >>
> >> Am I missing something here? Does mkinitrd mangle the ifcfg-eth* files?
> >
> > The mkinitd does not modify the ifcfg-ethX files.
> > If you want to define the HWADDR parameter in the ifcfg-ethX files, you
> > have to make them hostdependent.
>
> I did, but network-lib.sh checks if it's in the initrd, and if so saves
> a backup and creates a new one from the parameters that come from
> elsewhere (I'm assuimg from cluster.conf).
>
> The new one doesn't have the HWADDR parameter in it, because it isn't one
> of the things passed to network-lib.sh. So, any interface that are bound
> by MAC address rather than the default ordering won't work properly in the
> initrd. I have interface name, ip and mac specified in cluster.conf, but
> it never gets included in the built ifcfg file. :-(
That's a known "Bug" I dare say ;-) . But it should not be a big thing to 
change, should it?!
Try the rpm attached.
What do you think?

Marc.
>
> Gordan
>
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