Hi Ellis, i dont know if i understood u right but if so the following link should help. :)
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html greets Christian Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 2:42:53 AM, you wrote: EW> Hi all. EW> As an introduction, I've used LFS and BLFS for some EW> time now; my desktop EW> has seen many compilations of the sort over the past 2 EW> years, and I've EW> constructed a number of servers using the methodology. EW> My project right now, however, is causing me a tiny EW> bit of grief (in an EW> area that I'm sure will paint me as a neophyte). I'm EW> using LFS and EW> selected packages from BLFS on a small compute cluster EW> for chemical EW> research. As a proof of concept, I'm using a cheap EW> 100mbit workgroup EW> switch for my internode communications. EW> Unfortunately, since I've EW> always utilized dhcpcd for ip configuration, I've EW> never needed to EW> manually deal with the issue. EW> My Problem: EW> When I start up my four nodes on the switch, they all EW> read IP Address EW> 192.168.1.1, which obviously won't work for internode EW> communication. I EW> have the hostnames set differently, I have added all EW> the nodes to the EW> network file in /etc/sysconfig, and still they start EW> up with all the EW> same ip address. EW> I've done a quick search through the EW> linuxfromscratch.com for previous EW> emails about this, and googled the issue, but they all EW> point to a EW> program ifconfig. I'd rather do this by hand and EW> learn what's going on EW> myself, so any help is appreciated in advance. EW> Thanks, EW> Ellis EW> __________________________________________________ EW> Do You Yahoo!? EW> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around EW> http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
