Setting up separate network question

[Bill Ricker]

Definitely keep your paperwork in order.

Sounds like what you need is corporate paperwork defining the cluster
as a peripheral execution-accelerator of the CentOs box, defining the
gig-E or whatever cluster-bus as a cluster-bus not a hidden lan
segment.

Alternatively, get the Network guys to give you a gig-E/100T NAT
bridge of their own to make your subnet legit, let them manage it and
be happy, and let them provide DHCP to your subnet, so the dual-home
CentOS can concentrate on real work.

If you give IT network guys choice of managing something 10x faster
and different tech, they'll either thankfully give you paperwork to
say it's yours and they want to only talk to the CentOS (covering
themselves) or they'll happily take responsibilty (new toys). Depends
on budget and workload/excitement.

Wish my problems were half so exciting ...

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Bill
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