[BlueOnyx:01956] Re: IP Addressing on sites

[Gerald Waugh]

Chuck Tetlow  wrote ================
Hi BlueOnyx experts.  Maybe one of you know a resolution to a IP Addressing 
problem.

One of the companies has a bunch of BlueQuartz servers that they've got me 
converting to BlueOnyx.  But BlueOnyx has the IP addressing issue BlueQuartz 
had.  Specifically, whatever IP address you put on the box (eth0) - it 
copies that same netmask to the IPs for the sites.

Since this company wants to keep all the "box" addresses in a similar 
network, they have a /28 network for their virtual servers.  Then they 
assign a class-C  /24 block to the sites on each server.  The problem is the 
BlueOnyx keeps the same /28 subnet mask on the subinterfaces for the sites. 
And that means that we loose the ability to use two IPs out of every 16 (its 
considering one of them a network identifier and one a broadcast).

So, what I'm looking for is a way to set the netmask on the subinterfaces 
for the sites.  In the past, I've spent a lot of time going through each 
ifcfg-eth0:xx with VI correcting the mask and broadcast IPs.  Then to 
prevent the system modifing those interfaces again the next time a site was 
added - I had to set the immutable bit on them.  Which of course means that 
I'm the only one that can delete a site - because I have to turn that off 
first.  Not a good fix.  But I don't know any other method.

Does anyone know how to change the netmask and broadcast on all the 
subinterfaces - and get the management GUI to use something other than what 
is assigned to eth0 (when creating new sites)??
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Naybe if you have two eth ports,
put the /24 on one and the /28 on the other
Not sure how the GUI handles that, just a thought.

Gerald