[DRBD-user] Problem with stacked resource failing

Kaloyan Kovachev kkovachev at varna.net
Sat Mar 3 12:37:16 CET 2012

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


On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:55:22 -0800 (PST), envisionrx
<ron.wells at envision-rx.com> wrote:
> Brian R. Hellman wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> This may be a situation where DRBD Proxy would help, however we'd need
a
>> bit more information to determine that.  
>> 
>> Do the logs on the DR side say anything with regards to DRBD at all?  
>> 
>> The logs have normal drbd info, but i don't see anything on the DR side
>> indicating an error condition.
>> 
>> What is the latency between the sites? 
>> 
>> The ping time between sites is typically around 60 ms, is that what
your
>> asking, or is there some other measurement you're looking for?
>> 
>> Are you able to trigger this, or do you see a pattern of when it
occurs?
>> 
>> Well, interestingly, we decided to try to configure an ipsec tunnel
>> between the sites, we've been using an openvpn tunnel.  We're having
>> trouble getting the ipsec tunnel to work.  When we are working with the
>> ipsec tunnel we have a very strange situation where the tunnel shows as
>> being up, we can ping through the tunnel, ssh through the tunnel, but
if
>> we try to pass any significant amount of traffic through the tunnel it
>> flakes out.  For example if we try to scp through the tunnel it starts
>> and
>> then stalls.  If we try to sync drbd through the tunnel we see this
>> sock_sendmsg time expired failure situation all the time.  So at this
>> point if we use the ipsec tunnel we can duplicate it consistently.
>> 

This looks like MTU problem. Try to ping with different packet sizes to
determine the link MTU and adjust accordingly.

>> 
>> 
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