[Oscar-users] DHCP on ECS all-in-one board

[Logan D. <lo...@yo...>]

I have several Athlon client nodes (all ECS all-in-one mobo's) running 
off of a P3 server. Would someone be willing to help me out with my 
Redhat 7.3 OSCAR installation? Specifically:

My public ethernet is setup as 192.168.0.205. That works fine.
My static ethernet is setup as 10.0.0.200. What should my gateway and 
broadcast be? (255.255.255.0 and ????). What would a suitable 
/etc/hosts look like for my server?

127.0.0.1     locahost
192.168.0.205 my-server
10.0.0.200    my-server oscar_server etc...

During the OSCAR installation, I can get all of the MAC address for my 
client boxes. They are mapped to 10.0.0.101, 10.0.0.102, etc. I made a 
boot-floppy as that mo-bo doesn't support network booting.

When I boot off of the floppy disk, I see "realtek ... ethernet" whiz 
by. I assume that the kernel (hopefully) has the correct module built 
into it. I wait the 35 seconds and then the DHCP search starts with a 
netmask of 255.255.255.255. Trouble is, it never finds my DHCP server.

I'd appreciate any help with coaching me through the installation.

thanks
logan

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