[DRBD-user] drbd heartbeat help

Dominique Chabord dominique.chabord at bluedjinn.com
Sat Jan 24 08:06:32 CET 2004

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Ellenberg" <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com>
To: <drbd-user at nudlaug.linbit.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd heartbeat help


> / 2004-01-24 01:39:29 +0900
> \ Alex E:
> > Hello .I am trying to implement drbd - heartbeat failover solution for
our
> > webhosting company.
> > It is a 2 node cluster  master and hot slave.I did use heartbeat prior
to
> > using drbd with simple ip failover.
> > I configured drbd and heartbeat in a following way:
>
> > drbd.conf:
> >     address=192.168.1.3
> >     address=192.168.1.4
>
> > and my haresources:
> > node0.mydomain.com 192.168.1.2 datadisk::drbd0 datadisk::drbd1 \
> > psa xinetd mailman
>
>
> I think having 192.168.1.2 as your "floating" ip while having
> 192.168.1.{3,4} as your drbd ips is asking for trouble.
> most likely drbd has problems to bind to the ips it is configured to use.

What kind of trouble would you expect ? Can you tell us more ?
For a different project, we have just tested drbd between two IP
floatting addresses (one for primary, the other one for secondary),
and it works pretty well. Should we expect a bad surprise ?

Thank you
Dominique




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