Hi, I was wondering if someone could answer one of my xCAT questions.
In xCAT, you give a node a name, and xcat by default associates that name with the IP address that the node installs itself via. In our world, This will be a private management interface on an unroutable network(10.0.0.0/24 for example) which should be named <nodename>-e0. When generating /etc/hosts etc, xCAT will assign the base hostname to that IP address(e.g. <nodename> would be 10.0.0.32, rather than the public routeable interface 128.xx.yy.zz) and allow you to name other interfaces by either adding a prefix, or suffix to the name on a per-interface basis. this scheme would result in a hosts table like: 10.0.0.32 <nodename> <nodename>.<domainname> # install interface. 128.xx.yy.zz <nodename>-pub <nodename>-pub.<domainname> # additional routeable interface I'd like the routeable interface to get the unadorned name, and for the management net to get an -e0 suffix. This would result in a hosts table like: 10.0.0.32 <nodename>-e0 <nodename>-e0.<domainname> # install interface. 128.xx.yy.zz <nodename> <nodename>.<domainname> # additional routeable interface I'd expect this would be a problem for anyone wanting to install over a non-routable management network(you'd presumably want users coming in over the routeable interface to be able to use the unadorned name.) How do folks deal with this? Is this an unusual configuration? do people just live with addorned names like <nodename>-pub for their outward facing network interfaces? -Allie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
