Having problems with ipmipower. I have a 192 node cluster and am trying to use it with Powerman/ipmipower. Powerman -q is showing a large, random assortment of of nodes in the unknown state. It changes each run.
I went to the underlying ipmipower commands and stat in interactive mode comes up with a random set of timed out nodes. The man page refers to setting fixed mac addrs in the arp tables, and I tried that. Doing a tcpdump while doing an ipmiping shows the bmc, at roughly every two minutes, makes an arp request towards the machine running ipmiping and drops all packets on the floor while it is waiting for the arp response. So every bmc drops some packets. Also, when starting up ipmiping, it drops some packets while it does an initial arp request. I think this is what is confusing ipmipower. I've tried lots of different settings for ipmipower but have been unable to find a set of options that come up with a reliable stat. Any ideas what I should set things to? (These nodes are IBMx3550's using an RSAII if that helps) Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
