On 2011/05/19 05:13, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2011, Toshiaki Shingu wrote:
>
>> I installed SL 5.6 beta 2 to three nodes using PXE boot.
>> ip addresses were obtained by dhcp, so all nodes have diferent ips.
>> After the successful installation hostid command returns the same value
>> '007f0100' on all machines.
>
> That looks like 127.0.0.1 in a single 32bit word.
>
> Is the default network lo0 ?
>
> Are you running IPv4 ? If you are IPv6 only and hostid doesn't know
> about IPv6 could that explain this ?

I might suggest using "host" to get a more conventional printout,
too. The host command also does understand IPV6. The other question
is whether the installs actually see something adequately resembling
a network card.

{^_^}  Joanne