[Lustre-discuss] Help! Newbie trying to set up Lustre network

[D. Marc Stearman]

Client LNET config is the same as the servers.  Add:

lnet networks="tcp0(eth2)"

to your client modprobe.conf.  That will tell the client to ONLY use  
eth2.  By default, lustre will use all network interfaces.

-Marc

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D. Marc Stearman
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On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Xiang, Yang wrote:

> I think my problem is that the client machine is also multihomed and  
> has
> 5 network interfaces. When it tries to mount, it uses the eth0 and can
> not reach the server.  I need to force it to use eth2 to talk to the
> server.  I don't know how to do that from the client configuration
> prospective.
>
> Thanks for any hint,
>
> Yang
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org
> [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Brian J.
> Murrell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:09 PM
> To: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Help! Newbie trying to set up Lustre
> network
>
> On 11-02-22 03:03 PM, Xiang, Yang wrote:
>> But my mount command is failing and that's the issue:
>> mount -t lustre 192.168.0.2 at tcp0:/temp /lustre
>> mount.lustre: mount 192.168.0.2 at tcp0:/temp at /lustre failed: No such
>> device
>> Are the lustre modules loaded?
>
> Right.  So, if after such a command, lsmod still shows no lustre  
> modules
> loaded, then it would seem your system is not loading the modules on
> demand, as it should.  Or that there is an issue in which they are
> failing to install correctly.
>
> You can try to manually load the modules before issuing the mount
> command with:
>
> # modprobe lustre
>
> Of course, if that fails, the syslog kernel target and/or dmesg should
> be informative of why.
>
> b.
>
> -- 
> Brian J. Murrell
> Senior Software Engineer
> Whamcloud, Inc.
>
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