[DRBD-user] It is possible to change partner none's address on the fly?

Igor Yu. Zhbanov bsg at uniyar.ac.ru
Tue Dec 19 16:57:32 CET 2006

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Nicolas Bouthors wrote:

> Why don't you use ethernet bonding in failover mode ?
> 
> modprobe bonding mode=1
> ifconfig bond0 10.0.0.1
> ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
> 
> Never tried it with DRBD but I don't see why it couldn't work.

Thanks! :-)
It's interesting idea.

> Le 19/12/2006 18:16, Igor Yu. Zhbanov Иcrivait  :
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Suppose, I have two nodes connected by two network links. And I want
> > to make network connection between DRBDs to be redundant. I don't
> > want to use anything like Zebra to make software link over two hardware
> > links to make it high available because any layers adds additional latancy.
> > 
> > So, I am curious, is it possible to dynamically change info about DRBD's
> > partner node inside running DRBD without restart? It will be nice to have
> > two hardware links and monitor script that will change DRBD's representation
> > what link to use to find the partner node upon master link failure. And you
> > will get redundant channel for DRBD synchronization without any overheads.
> > 
> > Thanks.




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