On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM, janani venkat <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you.. > And can you give me a tutorial kinda thing to connect them using LAN? Becos > am very new to this. It would be of greatly useful to me > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Habermaas, William < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> You can setup the machines and configure them without being connected >> over a network. But once you want to start up the services all machines >> have to be active and reachable on the LAN. >> >> Bill >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: janani venkat [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:51 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Hadoop cluster setup >> >> Hi >> I'm a beginner in working with hadoop. I want to know if we have to >> physically connect the machines using LAN cable before setting up the >> cluster. >> Urgently needed to clarify this and start my work\ >> Regards >> Janani >> >
You should connect them the way you would connect any computers. Hadoop setup documents assume you familiar with computer networking (IP) fundamentals. If you are not proficient in this you should contact your network administrator for help.
