[Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Tihomir Cavuzic
Hello, Let me introduce my little connectivity question, maybe VCS-related: VCS 4.1, 2 Netras 440 with Solaris 10, 5 service groups, one of them is network. Config files attached. The problem is that often we experience connectivity delays which are demonstrated for instance by telnet hold-ups, t

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Jim Senicka
What address to you telnet to? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tihomir Cavuzic Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:43 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays Hello, Let me introduce my little

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Jim Senicka
Sorry, Should have been more clear. VCS is capable of bringing IP addresses up and down. It uses standard OS commands to do so (ifconfig in this case). It does not have anything in the data path at all. The only time VCS could possibly be involved is if a failover of a VCS managed IP address were

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Tihomir Cavuzic
Hello Thanks for the advices. I usually do ssh to one of the vIPs controlled by the VCS, eg. 10.6.132.14. All the applications (for instance diameter) also use vIPs. Actually I didn't try to test whether there is a difference in connectivity behaviour if I connect to physical IP. Will try to see

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Jim Senicka
If you have multiple NIC's on a single Sun box plugged into a Cisco switch environment using multiple VLAN, use of Local MAC = False may be causing spanning tree reconverge. The switch fabric is potentially discovering duplicate MAC addresses on different VLAN segments and assumes a loop somewhere

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Philippe Belliard
Hello, I confirm that On Solaris platform with VCS implementation it is required that the "local-mac-address?=true". This information is provided into the Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide. I extract for you information form VCS Installation Guide for Solaris 5.0 on chapter "Preparing to