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On 17.05.2011 18:19, Herman wrote:
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I made a change to IPTables, and did a "service iptables restart",
and next thing I knew, I had a split brain.<br>
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I would guess that the RHEL FW setup flushes the connection
tracking tables and has a default drop (or reject) rule.<br>
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This would cause DRBDs TCP connections to time out eventually.
Also, neither OCFS nor DLM react kindly when their communication
link goes down.<br>
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Try to keep the FW setup from unloading the "nf_conntrack" module or
otherwise fiddle with connection tracking. This should prevent any
harm in the FW restart case. <br>
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In addaditon, if you expect any prolonged FW downtime to happen (for
example: FW stop, explain situation to your boss, FW start), you may
also like the usual "stateful accept" rule<br>
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iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT<br>
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to be present during the FW downtime.<br>
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