[Linux-cluster] Re: Nodes show up extremely slowly (or not at all)

[Kadlecsik Jozsi]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Kadlecsik Jozsi wrote:

> It took 13 minutes(!) for 'lsxerv0' to notice 'lxserv1'.

It turned out to be a switch-related multicast problem: openais used the 
default(?) 239.192.6.53 address, while the switch strangely enough passes 
the 224.0.0.x addresses only. So by setting the multicast address in
cluster.conf explicitly to 224.0.0.3 cured the problem.

Best regards,
Jozsef
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