Hi,

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:49:55PM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote:
> On Monday 02 June 2008 13:21:05 Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > > I need eth2 to have a static address that need to fail over between the
> >
> > When you say "static address" what do you mean exactly? Normally,
> > all addresses within the cluster should be static.
> I'll explain it a bit better. I want heartbeat to allocate a primary IP 
> address to the interface where there is no other IP address. 
> 
> >
> > > servers. This is quite trivial but as the link isn't set to up the IPaddr
> > > script fails. As a work around I'm putting "/sbin/ip set link up dev
> > > eth2" in my startup scripts but I'm wondering if this is being looked at
> > > of future release of if I'm missing something. I'm using heartbeat v
> > > 2.1.2.
> >
> > You should always have a node IP address set on an interface.
> > Then the link should always be up.
> 
> Yes but I only have one IP address allocated to my boxes in that range. I 
> could put another IP address from a different range on that interface but 
> that is not really a nice solution. Messy....

How do you access your box in case the cluster's down? IPaddr RA
can't create an address on an interface which is down. There has
been some discussion on the matter, but can't recall the outcome.
Perhaps you can take a look at the archives.

Thanks,

Dejan

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> Wayne 
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