In our current fight against the BladeCenter switches, we’re currently facing the problem that the blades ain’t able to send/receive DHCP-traffic.

So in order to move forward, we had to use static IP addresses. And since SLES10 ain’t straight forward on that, I had to look it up. Now, here’s for me (and everyone else tired of searching) how to do it:

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install=http://ftp.barfoo.org/install/SLES10-x64/CD1
  netdevice=eth0
  hostip=10.0.1.240
  netmask=255.255.255.0
  gateway=10.0.1.1
  nameserver=10.0.1.2
  domain=home.barfoo.org
  insmod=bnx2
  splash=verbose