On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 19:50 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:23 -0400, Josh Totoro wrote:
<snip> > > When I set up the first XS server back in march (0.5.1) there was a > > lot more info on the Wiki about setting up multiple XS servers in one > > network. Does anyone have any of this info available still or does it > > no longer apply? > > > As network_config is used for the setup for the server's "role", only > "role 1" provides internet access, and a large netblock on eth1, while > role > 1 assumes that you have only one nic and are using "AA" to > contact the XO's. So we are really in uncharted waters here.. > > Think the easiest way would to have the wired lan on "role 1" handle > less of the netblock and allocate the addresses across the "XS server > farm" in the form of a new lanbond0 file that would take into account > the fact that the role other that 1 should create the needed network > configuration. I'm thinking a /23 for each XS's wired nic here. > > Anybody running more that 500 clients off a single XS? > > Of course you would have to change the bind/dhcp config to match... > Better plan, just make eth1,2,3 be slaves of mshbond0,1,2. on the additional XSes, No need to change the network layout, ~500 clients per nic. We just have to edit the ifcfg-ethX file and add MASTER=mshbondX SLAVE=yes. > Martin, what do you think? > Cleaner? > > > > > Should we set up all XS servers the same way and let them run > > individually from each other? I am worried about conflicts with using > > the same name schoolserver.cccs.org, should the next one be > > schoolserver2.cccs.org or will that prevent things like ejabberd from > > working. > > Until the above issue is addressed, that might get a bit out of hand > with 2 lans sharing the same address space. > The issue now is that hostname is set to HOSTNAME=schoolserver.@@BASEDNSNAME@@ in /etc/sysconfig/network which would apply to both XS servers. The quick workaround would be to use a subdomain for each XS when you run domain_config, eg: lan1.cccs.org for the first XS, then change lan1 for the second XS. > Just tossing around ideas... > Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
