On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:07:09AM -0500, James Cammarata wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:17:33 +0200, Christian Horn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > a) setting network-modes > > We run some network interfaces in 100full-mode and some in 1gbit mode. > > Wondering how to set this up best. The mode is unknown at the time > > 'cobbler system add' is done, so i do not wand to use ksopts handing > > over vars to a snippet configuring the mode. > > My idea for now is using ethtool to ask for interfaces current speed. > > If its 1gbit do nothing, if its autonegotiated to 100-half or 100-full i > > > > echo 'ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"' \ > > >>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth$number > > > > to set the mode since if its 100 we run 100full by default. > > Any more cobblerish way for this yet? > > If you don't have any standard way of doing this, then I'm not sure cobbler > can help. We have standard network interfaces for each network, for > instance the first onboard is the management network link, whereas the > second onboard and the first port of the first PCI card are used for the > production bonded interface. > > If you don't have a standard cabling plan, you really really should.
The servers are not similiar in their hardware and in the purpose they will serve, this standard-cabling would become a matrix.. will consider it. > For a solution, I'd recommend either making everything autoneg (since gig > needs to be anyway). Guess we will settle on that. Christian _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
