That is not necessary.
For the cluster, 1. you need to program mac address for every node at the first time. 2. and for the second time, you need to use scripts to preserve the mac address.
YH
On 02/07/2007 11:35 AM, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
That is not necessary.
For the cluster,
- you need to program mac address for every node at the first time.
- and for the second time, you need to use scripts to preserve the mac
address.
Yinghai,
I am not sure that I understand you correctly. I guess, my patch supposedly makes the step 1 easier.
I have no clusters. I have a number of PCs with original BIOSes, and I need to flash linuxbios into them. The original BIOS keeps the MAC address in the BIOS flash.
Another point is that I've spent quite a bit of time figuring out exactly why my networking is screwed and how it would be possible to move the MAC address definition from the secret file closer to the particular target configuration and the person compiling it. The MAC address is not a property of ck804, it is a property of the mainboard or the target.
Regards,
Roman
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Roman Kononov