----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Lau" <[email protected]> > To: "users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:10:19 AM > Subject: [Users] Hosted-Engine purpose for gateway check? > > Hi, > > I was recently playing around with the new ovirt 3.4 ga, I'm very > happy all those issues I reported got fixed :D > > I found a new issue regarding the use of PREFIX vs NETMASK which I've > uploaded here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084685 > > Anyway -- I'm wondering what is the purpose for the gateway check in > the hosted-engine setup? In my test case, I had the following NIC > configuration > > eth0 - public (has gateway) > eth1 - management > eth1.1 - storage > eth2 - vm data (no IP address) > > So during the hosted engine install, it will not let me assign eth2 as > the NIC because it has no IP address or gateway. So I proceed to use > eth1 instead as, as it has an IP address but again that would fail > because no gateway. Luckily I have a L3 switch, so I put up a gateway > for eth1 and that solved that issue. > > What is the gateway check supposed to achieve? I also tried to put in > my eth0's IP address as the gateway but it still failed because of > those config issues. If management/ovirtmgmt/vmdata are all on a L2 > switch environment, effectively there becomes no gateway and it > prevents the installation.
It actually does not need to really be a gateway. It's used only as part of a calculation trying to assess the liveliness of the host. See [1] for details, especially pages 33-34. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/images/8/88/Hosted_Engine_Deep_Dive.pdf -- Didi _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
