[Lustre-discuss] controlling which eth interface lustre uses

[Brock Palen]

On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:29 -0400, Brock Palen wrote: 
>> 
>> We could do this, the 10Gb drivers have been such a pain for us we wanted to have a 'back door' management network to get to the box should we have issues with the 10Gb driver.
> 
> If you really do want two separate networks, one for Lustre and one for
> management, they why not configure them as separate networks with
> different subnets?  Anything else is just going to confuse the routing
> engine.
> 
> I think "at best" two interfaces on the same subnet is going to cause
> indeterminate behaviour.

We settled on disabling the eth0 interface and hope the 10Gb driver will not give us any more trouble.
We don't currently have a dedicated management network, it was passed over being setup for just a single host.



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