Hi,

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:29:59PM +1300, Steve Wray wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have two servers set up with drbd, heartbeat and NFS.
>
> They are only talking over the network, there is no serial heartbeat, and 
> can't be at the moment.
>
> What I'd like to happen is that if either one loses network connectivity 
> they "sit down and shut up", ie the one which cannot reach, say, the 
> router, does not try to become the active node; it sends drbd into 
> standalone, does not mount the drbd filesystem, does not bring up NFS and 
> does not bring up the floating interface. It has lost network, it should go 
> into a 'passive' mode and wait for the network to come back.
>
> I tried using 'ping' with "respawn hacluster /usr/lib/heartbeat/ipfail" and 
> to list a few IP addresses which should be reachable, but this doesn't seem 
> to do what I want. Rather, when it loses network and cannot ping them it 
> puts drbd into standalone, mounts the drbd filesystem, starts NFS and 
> brings up the interface on the floating address... seems a bit wierd to me.
>
> Is there an FAQ or something for this?

If you're using v1 style configuration, then ipfail is the right
thing. Otherwise, you should go with the pingd. See:

http://www.linux-ha.org/ipfail
http://linux-ha.org/pingd

Thanks,

Dejan


>
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