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Actually, these new HP servers have three ports. Two Gig-E and one FastEthernet for management.
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<br />But the GUI doesn't even know there is more than one. It merely allows you to set a IP on the server - which luckily turns up on the first Gig-E port. There is nothing else in the GUI to set up additional ports (like eth1 or eth2).
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<br />Chuck
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From: "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com>
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To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx@blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:44:44 -0500
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:01956] Re: IP Addressing on sites
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<br />> Chuck Tetlow wrote ================
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Hi BlueOnyx experts. Maybe one of you know a resolution to a IP Addressing
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problem.
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One of the companies has a bunch of BlueQuartz servers that they've got me
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converting to BlueOnyx. But BlueOnyx has the IP addressing issue
BlueQuartz
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had. Specifically, whatever IP address you put on the box (eth0) - it
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copies that same netmask to the IPs for the sites.
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Since this company wants to keep all the "box" addresses in a similar
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network, they have a /28 network for their virtual servers. Then they
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assign a class-C /24 block to the sites on each server. The problem
is the
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BlueOnyx keeps the same /28 subnet mask on the subinterfaces for the sites.
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And that means that we loose the ability to use two IPs out of every 16 (its
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considering one of them a network identifier and one a broadcast).
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So, what I'm looking for is a way to set the netmask on the subinterfaces
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for the sites. In the past, I've spent a lot of time going through each
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ifcfg-eth0:xx with VI correcting the mask and broadcast IPs. Then to
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prevent the system modifing those interfaces again the next time a site was
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added - I had to set the immutable bit on them. Which of course means that
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I'm the only one that can delete a site - because I have to turn that off
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first. Not a good fix. But I don't know any other method.
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Does anyone know how to change the netmask and broadcast on all the
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subinterfaces - and get the management GUI to use something other than what
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is assigned to eth0 (when creating new sites)??
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Naybe if you have two eth ports,
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put the /24 on one and the /28 on the other
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Not sure how the GUI handles that, just a thought.
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Gerald
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