Many thanks Darren!

mumtaz

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Darren Thompson <darr...@akurit.com.au>wrote:

> **
> Mumtaz
>
> I'm happy t post some example config files etc if that would help.
>
> Don't forget, if you are using VLANS the link needs to be a "trunk link"
> so that it passes all the VLAN tags etc.
>
> Darren
>
>
> On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 09:54 -0800, M Siddiqui wrote:
>
> Thanks Darren!
>
>
>
>  Yes I want to separate hearbeat traffic from other IO and your
> suggestion
>
>  about setting up VLAN with interface bonding sounds interesting; I will
> try this option.
>
>
>
>  thanks again,
>
>
>
>  kind regards,
>
>  mumtaz
>
>  On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Darren Thompson <darr...@akurit.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> mumtaz
>
> I'm still not convinced that your use of corosync ring redundancy is even
> solving the correct problem in your case, it looks to me that you have an
> invalid network configuration with the two interfaces on the same subnet,
> that may be the root of your problems.(You have two interfaces in the same
> lan, each with separate IP addresses... I'm not sure that is even good
> practice).
>
> I'm not sure why you say this: "Also, bonding of interfaces does not work
> for me as I need to interfaces each with a separate address." as I have
> regularly used exactly that configuration without error for the last two or
> so years...
>
> If you want to separate the Heatrtbeat traffic from other IO traffic you
> could just setup VLAN interfaces over the top of the bond.
>
> In either case if you use 802.3ad mode it gives you almost twice the
> bandwidth per host, so you get fault tolerance and more bandwidth...
> win/win.
>
> Try it, you may be surprised...
>
> Regards
> Darren
>
>
>   On 26 January 2012 10:07, M Siddiqui <msiddi...@live.com.pk> wrote:
>
>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:02:39 +1100
> From: Tim Serong <tser...@suse.com>
> To: openais@lists.linux-foundation.org, disc...@corosync.org
> Subject: Re: [Openais] HA Cluster Connected over VPN
> Message-ID: <4f1f70cf.6030...@suse.com>
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> On 01/25/2012 12:32 PM, M Siddiqui wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a situation where two cluster nodes are connected over the VPN;
> > each node
> > is configured with two interfaces to provide ring redundancy for
> corosync:
> >
> > NODE1:
> >    eth1: 192.168.1.111/24 <http://192.168.1.111/24>
> >    eth2: 192.168.1.112/24 <http://192.168.1.112/24>
> >
> > NODE2:
> >    eth1: 192.168.1.113/24 <http://192.168.1.113/24>
> >    eth2: 192.168.1.114/24 <http://192.168.1.114/24>
> >
> > corosync version 1.4.2
> > transport udpu (multicast has the same issue)
> >
> > Since two nodes are geographically distributed and connected over the
> VPN,
> > configuring each interface in a different subnet is not an option here.
> >
> > Now corosync got confused due to same subnet; how we can handle this
> > situation?
> > What is the experts recommendation? Thanks in advance for the answer.
>
> I'm pretty sure if you're doing multiple rings, they need to be on
> separate subnets.  Question: if you're going over a single openVPN
> instance, you only really have one communication path between the nodes,
> right?  In which case, redundant rings won't actually help.
>
>
>
>    I see. Thanks!
>
>
>
>    Actually in my setup I am using two interfaces on each node:
>
>    eth1 for heartbeat and eth2 for some data aggregation from other
>
>    hosts on the same network as well as hosts across the VPN.
>
>
>
>    Now I agree there in one communication path for hosts across the
>
>    VPN but we can avoid congestion while aggregating data from hosts
>
>    on the same network; (I mean all host on one end of VPN). In this
>
>    situation, even if we don't configure eth2 as a backup ring in
> corosync.conf
>
>    still corosync got confused and does not work.
>
>
>
>    Also, bonding of interfaces does not work for me as I need to
> interfaces
>
>    each with a separate address.
>
>
>
>    regards,
>
>    mumtaz
>
>
>
>
> Also, you probably want the disc...@corosync.org list.
> openais@lists.linux-foundation.org is deprecated, for lack of a better
> term.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
> --
> Tim Serong
> Senior Clustering Engineer
> SUSE
> tser...@suse.com
>
>
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