edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (05/03/91)
In <9937@plains.NoDak.edu> lodin@plains.NoDak.edu (Steve Lodin) writes: | In the near future, our networking will be dividing our physical | backbone into several smaller segments using Cisco routers. | This will isolate some of my discless machines (HP 9000/340s) | from their server. Those poor 340's.... ;-) You definitely have a problem here. The diskless boot request of a cnode (``help, I want my UNIX'') is simply an Ethernet broadcast and therefore not routable. This implies that the server and its cnodes must be on the same subnet. The server has a daemon running (rbootd) who maps Ethernet addresses to hostnames via /etc/clusterconf. During bootup, the IP address is map via /etc/hosts, using the hostname (from /etc/clusterconf, remember?). Manual pages that might interest you are clusterconf(4) and rbootd(1m). hope this helps, --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]