hi
I am trying to use JBoss cache as a synchronously replicated cache inside 
jboss. There are other jboss/ejb applications running that rely on this 
replicated data.
I have couple of failure scenarios that I need to protect against.

1) first one is the simplest one: when the whole node goes down. This case is 
taken care of as other applications depending on the cache use only other nodes.

The other two scenarios are a bit complex:
2)  If the nodes are running fine, but the connectivity between the JBossCache 
JGroup nodes is affected. That is other applications using the cache are not 
aware of this.

3) If the nodes are running fine, but only the multicast traffic amongst the 
JBossCache JGroup nodes is affected.

One possible solution to this problem is to invalidate all other cache replicas 
except one and then somehow route all application requests to that jboss 
instance. That would mean that if there are some EJBs that are clustered and 
they should be disabled on these invalidated cache nodes.

How can this be done?:
 - Stateless session bean, since client stub participating in a different 
jgroup discovery might still see all the nodes alive and continue 
load-balancing. Is it possible to programmatically start/stop SLSB pool?
Or Stateless bean could check for cache invalidation and throw exception that 
hints the client to retry request, but it might still land up on the same node 
depending on the concurrency of requests and since stub is not aware of this 
exception.  
- Message driven bean: Is it possible to programmatically start/stop MDB pools?
Or i guess (not sure) if MDB's could throw some exception in onMessage(), and 
the load-balancing logic in the external jms provider will try to route those 
messages to other MDBs.

Other possible solutions for high-availibilty through redundency:
(on top of the above)
Is it possible to configure a redundant network route for JGroups to fallback 
on?
Or is it possible to configure redundant multicast JGroups for one JBossCache 
and somehow bind these multicast address with different routes/nic?
Or is it possible to configure JGroups with two physical network interfaces, so 
it can decide to use either one of them.

thanks

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