[Fwd: Re: wackamole handling of spread daemon crash]

 Any way to configure wackamole not to crash all the interfaces if a 
local spread daemon dies ?  See detailed description of a problem below. 
Any help will be appreciated. 
Thank you.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: wackamole handling of spread daemon crash
Date: 	Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:17:43 -0400
From: 	Theo Schlossnagle <[email protected]>
To: 	Dmitry Korsun <[email protected]>
CC: 	[email protected]
References: 	<[email protected]>



Dmitry Korsun wrote:

> Hi,
>    We are exploring a possibility of using wackamole to increase 
> availability of critical TCP servers.  While staging different crash 
> scenarios, we observed that wackamole does not handle a crash of a 
> local spread daemon very nicely - it effectively breaks existing 
> network interfaces (not just virtual, but physical as well) rendering 
> the entire machine unreachable via network and requiring a local 
> reboot. Is this a configuration issue or is there a patch for this 
> kind of behavior ?
>    If this question is adderssed to the wrong person(s), can you 
> please provide a reference to a mailing list or a direct contact where 
> I can find the answer.
>    I appreciate any help,

Sounds like a configuration issue... but address the message to 
[email protected]