On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:27:31 EDT
> Derek Martin said:
>
> >What makes you think this? Heartbeat specifically states that heartbeat
> >ethernets should be *dedicated* (as does our documentation, I believe)
> >which should prevent that scenario, so if you failed miserably to follow
> >directions and not do that, you deserve what you get...
>
> It doesn't matter if their dedicated or not, it's the same IP stack that's
> getting hammered! The only thing that will help in this case is NON-ethernet
> heartbeat. Serial line, quorum disk, or telepathic mind-melding, as long as
> it's not ethernet!
Not likely to be a problem, unless you've got a seriously FAT pipe. a T1
or T3 can't even saturate your ethernet. If you can afford a fatter pipe,
you're not using redundant Linux firewalls. :)
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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