[Linux-cluster] Red Hat Cluster on same network as Heartbeat 2

Patrick Caulfield pcaulfie at redhat.com
Thu Jan 18 14:33:26 UTC 2007


Danny Wall wrote:
> Does anyone know of problems having Red Hat cluster traffic on the same
> network as Heartbeat2 cluster traffic? We implemented a cluster network
> to segment the traffic, and the idea was to put all cluster traffic on
> the Cisco switches, instead of using loopback, or having Netgear hubs
> all over the place for each cluster.
> 
> I know with a Red Hat cluster, if your cluster name is not unique (there
> is a bug that does not change this automatically), you will have
> problems with your cluster configs. I am not sure if there are any known
> issues having RHCS and Heartbeat cluster traffic on the same broadcast
> network, or is there any real potential for problems. I would assume
> they would ignore each others traffic.

If they are on different ports then they won't interfere. If they are on the
same port then you must change one of them. for cman simply add the following
mantra to cluster.conf

<cman port="6888"/>

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patrick




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