<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks for replying to me especically on a Sunday. I was familiar with everything you said. The question concerned not being able to use the tiebreaker to form quarum on STARTUP. Why is this? Also Lon sent me a URL to a doc I need but it seems the URL is stale. Can you help me? Here is the URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://people.redhat.com/lhh/rhcm-3-internals.odt">http://people.redhat.com/lhh/rhcm-3-internals.odt</a> Rick <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ---- From: Isauro Michael Napolis <mnapolis@redhat.com> To: linux clustering <linux-cluster@redhat.com> Sent: Sunday, October 1, 2006 5:12:14 PM Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] ip-tiebreaker quotes need explainging <div>Hi, The ip tiebreaker is primarily used during network split-brain situations in a even numbered (2,4, etc.) cluster. The ip tiebreaker provides the extra vote (to form a quorum (50% + 1)) to determine who should be the next/ new master. cheers, Michael On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:52, Rick Rodgers wrote: > Can anyone explain why this is so. Why is it only used on maintaining > qourum and not startup? > > > "The IP tiebreaker is typically used to *maintain* a quorum after a node > failure, because there are certain network faults in which two nodes may > see the tiebreaker - but not each other. > -- Lon" > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@redhat.com > <a target="_blank" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</a> -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com <a target="_blank" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</a> </div></div> </div></div> </body></html>