Hi,

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:27:17AM +0200, Michael Schhwartzkopff wrote:
> On Thursday 23 September 2010 13:47:43 Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:26:40PM +0200, Jonathan Petersson wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I haven't been active on this list for quite some time but I recall
> > > conntrack-support for heartbeat/pacemaker has been on the wall a few
> > > times. As I was in the process of installing a couple of new firewalls
> > > I figured I would spend some time actually getting some support for it
> > > now that the resource-based system has been put in place (great work
> > > btw).
> > > 
> > > Please notice that the code-set is still work in progress and I'll be
> > > spending the next few days expanding it.
> > 
> > Any new developments in the meantime?
> > 
> > > The code is available at: http://pastebin.com/Bv060JvR
> > > 
> > > Feel free to reply with comments and recommended changes.
> > 
> > Isn't conntrack supposed to be a master-slave implementation,
> > i.e. where one instance sends updates to other instances? I don't
> > know if migrate can be used instead of demote/promote.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A MS RA for conntrackd is not nescessary. conntrack publishes its state table 
> via multicast. You start it on all nodes of your firewall cluster as a clone 
> resource. The firewall that has the floating IP address sees new entries in 
> the 
> state table and published it. All other nodes get the new entries.

So, you could just as well let conntrack start by the boot
process, right? I always wondered on the relative merit of
cloning such resources or starting them via init.

> Passive nodes just do not get traffic and thus do not publish new entries.

I wonder why then there is migrate_to/from in the RA.

> Of course, you could write a MS RA. But that would be too much work.

Well, that doesn't seem to be needed.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Greetings,
> 
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