[Lustre-discuss] Any updates to the base CentOS 5 distro required?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jan 16, 2008  10:05 -0700, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> I found the problem, iptables was blocking the connections.
> 
> Will lustre function with iptables enabled?  Do I need to open more than
> port 988 for lustre to function?

You need 988 open for incoming connections on the client, OSS, and MDS
nodes.  LNET will create 3 outgoing connections on available reserved
ports to each client/server pair, starting with 1023, 1022, and 1021,
unless those are used by something else.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexey.Lyashkov at Sun.COM [mailto:Alexey.Lyashkov at Sun.COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:02 AM
> > To: Lundgren, Andrew
> > Cc: 'Lustre-discuss at clusterfs.com'
> > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Any updates to the base CentOS
> > 5 distro required?
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > is lustre modules loaded? can you show error messages from
> > console and /var/log/messages about it ?
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 15:25 -0700, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> > > I am trying to install lustre on a CentOS 5 fresh off the
> > DVD install.
> > > (No updates)
> > >
> > > I am also using Lustre 1.6.4.1.
> > >
> > > I can't seem to get the OSS or a client to talk to an MGC on a
> > > different machine.  The networking looks correct, and I can ping
> > > between the boxes, but I cannot do a lctl ping to the
> > remote machine.
> > > It comes back with an I/O error.
> > >
> > > Does the bare bones CentOS need to be updated for lustre to
> > function
> > > correctly?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andrew
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Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.