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