I finally figured out what went wrong. because I'm using replication in my cluster nodes the nodes use the failover transport for the network connectors (see my config). Unfortunately this is buggy in this scenario (see activemq jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3575)
To fix this i will fall back to one network connector per master and one network connector per slave. This will clutter my logfiles (as the slaves will not accept connections until their master fails) but it will work (it was my original config) Thanks for the help. -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/No-network-bridges-started-in-Network-of-brokers-tp4323506p4326695.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.