On 01/22/2013 08:29 PM, Alex Sudakar wrote:
> Hi Dima,
> 
>>> With only two nodes comprising the cluster I believe a quorum is
>>> impossible, so I've set no-quorum-policy to 'ignore'.  However I was
>>> wondering if there is a possibility of using one or more 'tie breaker'
>>> devices/resources to determine a proper quorum?  I _think_ I've seen
>>> mention of such a thing in passing in this list; I'm not sure.
>>
>> I simply grep for 'link detected' in the output of `ethtool eth0` -- if
>> it's not there, the node is off-line and can shoot itself. (Although I
>> don't do that: it's off the net, it's not bothering anyone, and I have
>> nagios elsewhere monitoring the hosts. If the link comes back on its
>> own, that could cause a problem, but that hasn't happened to me yet.)
> 
> I imagine other things could block network connectivity for one of the
> nodes, outside of the machine itself - a switch or hub failure?  Which
> wouldn't be detected by running ethtool locally.
> 
> But it's a good check to run regardless, thanks!

A stray iptables rule would knock you out without dropping the link layer.

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