Soren, Thanks for the response. The information is useful, however I tried using DROP in place of REJECT and the result is much the same: activity stops for two minutes and then resumes. Regards, Malcolm
On 24 October 2011 14:14, Soren Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/10/24 shared mailinglists <[email protected]>: > > During the run, I use iptables to simulate a network partition in which > one > > node in the cluster is disconnected from the other four (but all five > remain > > connected to the client). To disconnect from node A, for example, I run: > > > > sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s <node A> -j REJECT > > sudo /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -d <node A> -j REJECT > > This will not simulate a network partition. It will simulate Riak not > running on the given node. REJECT means a response is "sent back" to > the requestor, saying that the connection was rejected. Using DROP as > your target would more closely mimick a network partition as any > attempts to contact the node in question will be met with silence. > > > -- > Soren Hansen | http://linux2go.dk/ > Ubuntu Developer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ > OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/ >
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