[Linux-cluster] Piranha not bring up all interfaces

[David Brieck Jr.]

> ifconfig ioctl()s (e.g. SIOCGIFCONF, etc.) on 4+ e1000s sometimes fail
> for some reason.  I've only seen it with bonding and on RHEL3.  In
> clumanager from RHCS3, we worked around it it by allowing users to
> switch to RHEL4-ish behavior (e.g. use the iproute2 utilities, which use
> the netlink socket instead of ioctls).
>
> The same update was never made for piranha.  Maybe it's needed *shrug*.
>
> I don't know about RHEL4, and I thought it was fixed in RHEL3 U8, but it
> might be something to consider...
>
> (Obviously it shouldn't fail).
>
> -- Lon

The system is Update 4 so I would think if it was fixed I would be
seeing it. Can you suggest a workaround? I'm just thinking I'll have
to concoct some sort of cron job to make sure all the interfaces are
up, especially for when the backup takes over from the master in a
failover situation.