Am Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2009 13:43:03 schrieb Dejan Muhamedagic:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:06:02PM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2009 12:52:14 schrieb [email protected]:
> > > Hello all.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there now any use to having the 2nd interface connected with HA?
> >
> > Redundancy in the heartbeat path.
> >
> > > When previously configuring servers with HB 2.1.3, LVS and ldirectord I
> > > had the resources listeing on eth1 and had heartbeat communicate over
> > > eth0 on both servers to try and cut down on noise.
> >
> > If you do not want to have the broadcast traffic on your net, use the
> > ucast statement in ha.cf
> >
> > > Is there any reason to do this and if so in what way would you set it
> > > up using single HA resources in a 2-node HA cluster?
> >
> > Use: Redundancy of heartbeat path.
> >
> > Setup:
> > on node1:
> > bcast eth0
> > ucast eth1 <ip address of node2 on eth0>
> >
> > on node2:
> > bcast eth0
> > ucast eth1 <ip address of node1 on eth0>
>
> Adding
>
> > ucast eth1 <ip address of node1 on eth0>
> > ucast eth1 <ip address of node2 on eth0>
>
> in both ha.cf works as well. That way ha.cf remains equal on all
> nodes.
>
> > But anyway, using the resources net for heartbeat communication is not
> > the best idea.
>
> Why not? Because of noise? There's not much traffic with
> heartbeat. Of course, in this case it is preferable to use
> unicast.

- Using tcpdump on an other node in that net I have to add "not port 694".
- If the other traffic blocks the net, you get delayed heartbeats.
- Having multiple clusters on the same net you have to use other ports than 
694 with broadcasts.

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