[DRBD-user] 8.3.11 on RHEL 5.7 w/ MTU of 9000 fails

Digimer linux at alteeve.com
Sat Jul 23 06:30:13 CEST 2011

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Hi all,

  I installed from source DRBD 8.3.11 on RHEL 5.7's Xen kernel
(2.6.18-274.el5xen). I've got RHCS setup using rgmanager, but this issue
arose without rgmanager running, so I doubt it relates.

  When I have the interfaces' MTU set to 9000, the DRBD resource will
hang when bringing the second node up to Primary (dual primary config).
The attach and connect steps worked fine and the first node goes to
Primary fine.

  Interestingly enough, while debugging it, I 'ifconfig eth1 mtu 1500'
one node, and before I could do it to the second (hung) node, it was
fenced (using the obliterate-peer.sh script to tie it into the cluster).
So *some* level of communication was working. I'm guessing though that
the messages between DRBD are well below 1500 bytes though, so that
might have been the problem.

  Any way to debug this? If it looks like a DRBD bug, I'd be happy to
file a bug report, I just need to know where. :)

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