lagg problems on diskless client

Beeblebrox zaphod at berentweb.com
Tue Apr 3 11:51:58 UTC 2012


>
>
> > Please don't top post.
> Wasn't aware I was doing that. This is better I hope?
>
> > Assuming you're netbooting off re0, that looks correct.
> YES, re0 is the BIOS detected NIC
>
> > Are you sure you installed /etc/rc.d/lagg or an equivalent script?
> I had not noticed the link to the script at the bottom - I placed script
> in DC's private conf/<ip>/etc/rc.d then booted the DC. I got system freeze
> and 1 message:
> ifconfig: interface re0 cannot change link address!
> looking through the script I found the problem: lagg_tmp:=/mnt. My DC
> /root is *ro* so I'll have to change it to another tmp. Considering that
> my /var and /etc are md-mounted, using either seems out of the question. I
> also have /tmp mounted as tmpfs. Can I mkdir -p /tmp/lagg and mount
> lagg_tmp there or does it have to be an NFS shared location - what do you
> suggest?
>
> Thanks.
>


Slightly different point of view: Under this scenario of dikless clients
having dual NICs would CRAP be a choice to consider? From what I have read
it can offer loadbalancing but as I understand it's not really applicable
to diskless node situations?

Thank You.


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