I am intrigued by this thread. I am using RH Advanced Platform version 5.2. I have an 8-node cluster
running on an IBM Bladecenter. For those that may not be familiar with the IBM Bladecenter the blades have 2 NICs on them and the Bladecenter chassis has a Nortel switch that the NIC's connect to. I am using both NIC's plugged into two segments of my LAN. One of them is being used for the multicast heartbeat traffic. It works BUT occasionally my network has serious disruptions due to this being a telecommunications company and the engineers are always doing something to loop the network and/or saturate the network with broadcasts taking down the subnet that my heartbeat traffic is on. Sometimes when this happens the network is so bad that the multicast traffic is affected and I lose quorum on the cluster. Once I fix the network problem I need to restart each node to get the cluster back up and running. Not good and not the correct design. I would love to NOT use a public NIC for the multicast/heartbeat traffic. I tried to setup virtual interfaces and VLAN those in the Nortel switch and moving the multicast/heartbeat traffic over to them, leaving the 2 NICS on the original LAN segments they were on but even with IBM assistance we were unsuccessful. Does anyone have any experience with this? I want to do this to truly isolate the heartbeat network to eliminate any possibility for network congestion taking down the cluster and also because I do not want the multicast traffic pumped all over the LAN. Thanks, Ed (978) 210-9855 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kumar, Ashish Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:53 PM To: Fagnon Raymond; linux clustering Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] heartbeat I don't have any nics that I can dedicate for a cross over cable for heartbeat so I was thinking I could use the serial or the network itself. Is it possible to just use the primary interface for heartbeat since it is my understanding it is nothing more than a ping. You don't need to dedicate a NIC for heartbeat with Red Hat Cluster. Unlike Linux-HA, RHCS makes use of multicast to communicate with other nodes. The multicast IP address is assigned by RHCS automatically, so you don't need to do any special configuration. Please have a look at this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster _Administration/s1-multicast-considerations-CA.html For setup instructions, check this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster _Administration/s1-general-prop-conga-CA.html - Section 3 deals with Multicast address settings
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