Re: serial line for heartbeat
Scott Henry <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.failsafe |
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| Organization | SSO Engineering, Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> "M" == Marcus Doemling <[email protected]> writes: M> It seems FailSafe requires 2 network cards just for the M> control network. It strongly recommends 2 network cards for the control/heartbeat interface, for redundancy and to limit single-point-of-failure modes. It works with one. M> It would be great to be able to use a serial connection M> for heartbeats and one ethernet connection. Like the M> "heartbeat" package does it. I'm sure it would be a popular M> option since it saves one network card. There is too much info gonig across the control connection for a serial link, and a serial link restricts you to 2 nodes; FailSafe supports up to 8 nodes. M> I spend a lot of time studing the guides for FailSafe but M> finally I have to go with "heartbeat" since I only have M> 2 network cards on each of my servers. -- Scott Henry <[email protected]> / Help! My disclaimer is missing! IRIX/Linux MTS, / http://reality.sgiweb.org/scotth/ Silicon Graphics, Inc / SGI-One step ahead