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List:       npaci-rocks-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Rocks-Discuss] Insert ethers hangs during Ethernet Switch
From:       Sudarshan Wadkar <wadkar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-06-25 22:32:43
Message-ID: AANLkTinYU4wCcy1T7pDLK12qtubIvPSP1TvRcQ8_bBbd () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thankfully I haven't seen any IPMI requests yet, I think the HP enclosure
and other iLO stuff is taking care of it.

Thanks again for the handy F9 tip, I will keep this in mind :)

~$udhi
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
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- Robert Solomon in Waking Life


On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Fernando Rozenblit <rozenblit@gmail.com>wrote:

> No problem, just wait until you see IPMI requests. There's nothing
> like trying to figure out which of the two MACs is the real node. :)
> 
> Most of the appliance types won't kickstart, so don't be afraid to use
> F9. I just don't understand why they still try, though.
> 
> []s,
> Fernando
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sudarshan Wadkar <wadkar@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks a lot Fernando. I can finally go to bed now :)
> > @rock-devs :
> > can we please document this ?
> > something like :
> > "If you are nagged by a network switch requesting DHCP, discover it first
> by
> > selecting Ethernet Switch in insert-ethers menu, and exit by force
> quitting
> > (F9). Then move on to discovery of compute nodes"
> > 
> > Though its hard to figure out that a random MAC address sending
> DHCPDISCOVER
> > is the network switch (while all your compute nodes are powered off),
> unless
> > you physically go and check switch's MAC ID.
> > 
> > for a while I was confused to see an extra compute node in the cluster !
> > 
> > thanks again :)
> 
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