>>> Volker Poplawski <[email protected]> schrieb am 16.07.2012 um >>> 14:23 in Nachricht <[email protected]>: > On 16.07.2012 13:40, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: > >> Hello everyone. > >> > >> Could you please tell me the recommended mode for a bonded network > >> interface, which is used as the direct link in a two machine cluster? > >> > >> There are 'balance-rr', 'active-backup', 'balance-xor' etc > >> Which one to choose for maximum fault tolerance? > >> > >> I'm using corosync as cluster communication layer - if that matters > >> > >> > >> Regards > >> ....Volker > > > > balance-rr > > Thanks for the reply, Michael. > > > > > But be sure that the host discovers a link failure correct. > > Isn't link failure detected by the device driver or the bonding layer? > At least I get messages in dmsg about loss of link on the enslaved devices. > I there more to do or to check?
Hi! If you have more than one switch between the nodes, a failure between switches cannot be detected by the NIC driver. So the NIC will be sending out packets to a dead link (unless your switches to some redundancy magic). Regards, Ulrich > > > Regards > .....Volker > _______________________________________________ > 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
