> > 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" > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > Eric Robinson > > > > > Eric, > Please file a bug against the scripts then. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Tristan >
I imagine since I heard about it from Florian, who heard about it in an IRC chat, somebody must be way ahead of me on that. --Eric Disclaimer - November 6, 2011 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for General Linux-HA mailing list. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and might not represent those of Physicians' Managed Care or Physician Select Management. Warning: Although Physicians' Managed Care or Physician Select Management has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. This disclaimer was added by Policy Patrol: http://www.policypatrol.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
