On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:43:44PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > On 17 September 2010 12:03, Dejan Muhamedagic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:08:44PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have 2 dedicated LANs to be used by the Cluster+DRBD and I would > >> like to know what is the recommended method for the communication > >> path. > >> What are the pros and cons of each? > >> I know that if someone has to use a communication path over shared > >> network, the recommended method is unicast since multicast may cause > >> issues or not work at all, depending the switch configuration. > >> But in my case I have 2 dedicated LANs just for my 3 node cluster. > > > > I'd go with ucast. > > > and why?
Because it's the simplest. There's nothing to gain by using broadcast or multicast. Of course, if you expect to have many nodes, or nodes coming and going, there would be some benefit in using either multicast or broadcast. Thanks, Dejan > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
