On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 11:24 +0100, Colin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Christine Caulfield
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 15/03/10 09:53, Colin wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> in a test that we started last week we have two Pacemaker+Corosync
> >> clusters, each with three hosts, where all six hosts are on the same
> >> network(s). The two clusters are identically configured, with one
> >> execption: the mcastport is 688 for one, and 689 for the other.
> >>
> >> This morning I found the clusters in a strange state, none of the
> >> hosts could see any of the others, i.e. Pacemaker output was "as if"
> >> Corosync wasn't running on the other  nodes, although the network was
> >> fine, as I could easily verify with a ping etc.
> >>
> >> I then noticed in the lsof output that Corosync seems to also use the
> >> port below the configured mcastport, which leads me to my questions:
> >>
> >> Is this normal? It doesn't seem to be documented in
> >> http://corosync.org/doku.php?id=faq:configure_openais and
> >> corosync.conf(5).
> >> Is this overlap created by the additional port a likely cause for the
> >> cluster conking out?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, corosync uses both port <n> and <n-1>, so if you have two clusters
> > in the same multicast address you will need to take this into account.
> >
> > I haven't tried setting up cluster like you describe but I can easily
> > imagine that using ports like that would cause extreme confusion!
> 
> Thanks for the fast reply, I'll change the configuration accordingly.
> 
> (And please someone update the documentation to state that not only
> the actually configured port is used!)
> 

Good point.  Better documentation is incoming.

Regards
-steve

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