[BlueOnyx:01958] Re: IP Addressing on sites

[Mark E. Levy]

The "management" FastEthernet port on these HP boxes are not available to the OS. You set an IP address in the BIOS and access the lights-out management interface using a web browser. You can view the console if you buy the right management license...

Mark levy
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From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Chuck Tetlow
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 7:08 PM
To: Gerald Waugh; BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:01957] Re: IP Addressing on sites

Actually, these new HP servers have three ports.  Two Gig-E and one FastEthernet for management.

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).


Chuck



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From: "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:44:44 -0500
Subject: [BlueOnyx:01956] Re: IP Addressing on sites

> 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)??
> =================================
>
> 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
>
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