thanks for the quick answer. my problem with the virtual topic with 2 brokers is this: consumer has a failover url of the 2 brokers, brokers are connected in duplex mode, replayWhenNoConsumers="true"
1. I have a consumer connected to broker1 2. each message that is sent to broker 1 or 2 is received by the consumer on broker 1 3. consumer goes offline 4. messages (persist) are sent to broker 1 when consumer is down. 5. broker 1 goes down 6. consumer goes on line and connects to broker 2 - does not receive the messages that were sent to broker 1 when the consumer was offline 7. broker 1 goes online and only then the consumer which is connected to broker 2 gets the messages thanks again! -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Network-of-brokers-as-a-cluster-tp4687028p4687030.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.