Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I think you answered your own question, "when the HA inteface goes down", meaning the drbd nodes can't see each other any more. Sean Varun Menghani wrote: > Hi, > We're using heartbeat and drbd to impliment High-Availability, The > machines om which HA is setup have 2 interfaces, one used as a HA > interface and the other being the network interface. Heartbeat is > configured to broadcast heartbeats on both the interfaces. However, when > the devices are in a consistent state, and the HA interface goes down, > the drbd status on the devices changes from Primary/Secondary to > Primary/Unknown on the primary device and from Secondary/Primary to > Secondary/Unknown on the secondary device. (The heartbeat is still being > exchanged through the other interface.) > My query is that even though there is no takeover, why do both the > devices show each other in the Unknown state? > Regards, > Varun.