i created a simple python script to ask for a cluster size and then generate tokens for each node
http://github.com/yestech/yessandbox/blob/master/cassandra-gen-tokens.py it is derived from ben black's cassandra talk: http://www.slideshare.net/benjaminblack/cassandra-summit-2010-operations-troubleshooting-intro i can add it to the wiki if people think it is valuable. -- http://yeslinux.org http://yestech.org