What if I setup a gre tunnel between the 2 hosts with the mtu set low enough that it doesn't fragment the packets? At that point I could configure corosync to multicast to the virtual interface and work around the dodgy switch.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Alan Conway <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/19/2010 10:56 AM, Jason Stelzer wrote: >> >> I am setting up a 2 node cluster using the C++ qpidd 0.5 on fedora 12. >> This is primarily for failover. >> >> I'm in a situation where one of our hardware vendors is not handling >> multicast correctly. >> >> As an interim solution, is it possible to cluster via unicast? My >> understanding is that the corosync library uses multicast and that >> qpidd relies on that working correctly. This seems to imply that >> unicast is not possible, but I figured I'd ask and see if I get a >> definitive answer one way or the other. >> > > No, there's not currently a way to run clustering over unicast. > -- J. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
