[Server-devel] XS: Lanbond0 and eth0 problem

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:40 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Juan G. Narvaez <gnrvzsix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I made some changes on the ks.cfg file like keyboard layout, timezone,
>> > etc...
>> >
>> > Can an alteration of ks.cfg be part of the problem? Obviously, an different
>> > that ifcfg* configuration.
>>
>> Talking last night with Guillermo, he confirmed that a customisation
>> in the ks.cfg had caused a conflict with our network stuff.
>>
>> He's now getting consistently successful XS installs.
>>
>>
>>
>> m
>
> Let me guess, there was a setting of the network parameters in the
> kickstart file? I got around that by changing the git command in %post
> to not do a checkout for eth0, just for eth1, letting the anaconda
> version of ifcfg-eth0 remain on the system. The only result is that the
> ifcfg-eth0 file doesn't reference /etc/sysconfig/xs_network_config, for
> it's external network info.
>
> Martin, what is the usage of having the XS in server role other than 1?
> Perhaps going forward we should just manage eth1, using the available
> tools on the os to allow users to set eth0 in a more "normal" way.
>
> Jerry
>
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Speaking of the network, do we have a logical diagram of the network
on the XS (interface, bond memberships, etc) ?

Sameer
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