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Hi,<br>
<br>
Alan Jones wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">This question should be on the openais list, however, I happen to know
the answer.
To get up and running quickly you can configure broadcast with the
version you have.
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I've done that already, however I was a little concerned as to what
Steven Dake said on the openais mailing list about using broadcast
"Broadcast and redundant ring probably don't work to well together.".  <br>
<br>
I've also done some testing and saw that the broadcast address used is
255.255.255.255, regardless of what the bindnetaddr network address is,
and quite frankly, I was hoping to see a directed broadcast address.
This wasn't the case, therefore I wonder whether this was the issue
that Steven was referring to, because by using the 255.255.255.255 as a
broadcast address, there is the slight chance that some application
running in the same network might send a broadcast packet using the
same port as configured on the cluster. How would the cluster react to
that, would it ignore the packet, would it wreak havoc?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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  <pre wrap="">Corosync can distinguish separate clusters with the multicast address
and port that become payload to the messages.
The patch you referred to can be applied to the top of tree for
corosync or you can wait for a new release 1.3.0 planned for the end
of November.
Alan

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Dan Frincu <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dfrincu@streamwide.ro"><dfrincu@streamwide.ro></a> wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">Hi all,

I'm having an issue with a setup using the following:
cluster-glue-1.0.6-1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm
cluster-glue-libs-1.0.6-1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm
corosync-1.2.7-1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
corosynclib-1.2.7-1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
drbd83-8.3.2-6.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
kmod-drbd83-8.3.2-6.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
openais-1.1.3-1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm
openaislib-1.1.3-1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm
pacemaker-1.0.9.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pacemaker-libs-1.0.9.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
resource-agents-1.0.3-2.el5.x86_64.rpm

This is a two-node HA cluster, with the nodes interconnected via bonded
interfaces through the switch. The issue is that I have no control of the
switch itself, can't do anything about that, and from what I understand the
environment doesn't allow enabling multicast on the switch. In this
situation, how can I have the setup functional (with redundant rings,
rrp_mode: active) without using multicast.

I've seen that individual network sockets are formed between nodes, unicast
sockets, as well as the multicast sockets. I'm interested in knowing how
will the lack of multicast affect the redundant rings, connectivity,
failover, etc.

I've also seen this page
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/openais/2010-October/015271.html">https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/openais/2010-October/015271.html</a>
And here it states using UDPU transport mode avoids using multicast or
broadcast, but it's a patch, is this integrated in any of the newer versions
of corosync?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Dan

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Dan FRINCU
Systems Engineer
CCNA, RHCE
Streamwide Romania

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Dan FRINCU
Systems Engineer
CCNA, RHCE
Streamwide Romania
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