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List:       sisuite-users
Subject:    Re: [Sisuite-users] DHCP allocation order
From:       Ted Arden <ted () tux ! org>
Date:       2003-10-31 17:40:46
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a brainless (and kind of timeconsuming) way
to do this is boot them up in order, leaving
a minute or two between machines. worked for
me, but it took a while.  i am sure there is
prolly an automated way to do this, but brute
force is sometimes less complex.

=ted=

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Andrew Bennett wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> We now have a small cluster completely operational using sis (RH8, SIS
> 3.0.1).  We are now looking to scale this up.
>
> The problem I am having is with sequential allocation of IP addresses in
> numerical order. I solved it by hand for the small cluster. ie hand
> wrote the MAC addresses to the dhcpd.conf file. But this will be painful
> for a large cluster.
>
> What I would most like to do is use mkdhcpserver to allocate dynamic
> addresses, boot the machines in order from the top of the rack to the
> bottom, and then run mkdhcpstatic to "fix" this once all hosts are up.
>
> For example If I set range 172.16.30.22 172.16.30.30, it always
> allocates 30 then 29 rather than 22 then 23.
>
> I've seen the MAC address/hostname matching tool in OSCAR but was
> looking for an automatic solution.
>
> Is there an option for dhcp to sort this out?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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