Ramon Bastiaans wrote: > Installing a new cluster at SARA, I came across the following issue with > systemimager 3.8.0. > > We have multiple network interfaces, which are all configured through > DHCP. Now a problem arises when the SystemImager initrd does a > "start_network", which is that dhclient is called for _all_ ethernet > interfaces. > > This causes in turn a race condition: whichever network responds first > to the dhcp requests, is used to (try to) install the node. This is turn > doesn't work when the network with incorrect dhcp settings wins. > > However according to the wiki page the kernel/environment argument > DEVICE=<something> should be used to contact the imageserver. > > This can be fixed/prevented easily by using $DEVICE as cmdline argument > to dhclient in the initrd functions, attached my patch for this. That > way only $DEVICE gets configured through dhcp (during installation). > > Kind regards, > - Ramon.
Ramon, I like it! I've checked it into the trunk. I'd want to do a test ASAP just to see if it doesn't introduce some unexpected problems (but I don't think), then I'll check it also in the 3.8.x branch. Thanks, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
