On 05/11/11 18:25, Robinson, Eric wrote:
> A couple of things are fixed. The "ring FAULTY" messages were caused by
> genuine network communication failures (go figure) which in turn had two
> root causes. One was my error and the other was Red Hat's. Although I
> have set up bonding many times before, on these servers I had
> BONDING_OPS instead of BONDING_OPTS, so the bonding driver was not
> seeing my chosen configuration. It was therefore defaulting to
> round-robin behavior, which does not work in my switching environment.
> This caused about every other packet to be dropped. (I discovered this
> after learning about /proc/net/bonding, which showed that my bonded
> links were actually in rr mode instead of active-backup as I had
> thought.) Plus, I had copied the bad config file to all nodes,
> compounding the problem. 
>  
> The second problem is Red Hat's. The RHEL 6 installation program creates
> ifcfg-ethX scripts that contain quotes, such as
>  
>     device="eth0"
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> instead of the more common
>  
>     device=eth0
>  
> It turns out that these quotes prevent the devices from coming up at
> boot time. (I got this little clue and some other good information from
> Florian at hastexo--thank you.) I removed the quotes and now the devices
> come up nicely on reboot. This problem is quite reproducible. In one
> case, I even removed quotes from eth0 and eth2, but left them in eth1
> and eth3. After reboot, only eth0 and eth2 came up.
>  
> Now I have a working corosync+pacemaker cluster. Whew. 
>  
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> Eric Robinson
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Eric,
Please file a bug against the scripts then.

Thank you.

Regards,
Tristan

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