Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 28/11/2012 20:08, Mark Deneen wrote: > I'd just like to note that we've had some trouble with certain NICs in > which the adapter resets itself. In this situation, funny things can > happen with DRBD depending on how you are set up. A switch in the > middle keeps the link active on both nodes and can be used to prevent > such a situation. > Have seen this myself on some HP kit (cant remember if it was broadcom onboard or intel add-in pci-e cards that displayed the issues though) I make almost exclusive use of Intel ET2 quad gigabit cards in my new SAN (+iSCSI) + network stack and they have proven to be stable, fast and solid. know of others using Intel I340-T2 with no issue :-) Thanks > With that being said, which NICs are you guys using in your setups? > Are you happy with them? > > -M > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Lionel Sausin <ls at numerigraphe.com > <mailto:ls at numerigraphe.com>> wrote: > > Direct back-to-back means a dedicated pair of NICs and a single > cable between them - this optimizes latency which DRBD is > sensitive to. > DRBD is known to work on lesser configurations too, with varying > performance impacts. > The IP network should not matter as far as I know. > Lionel Sausin > > Le 25/11/2012 20:46, marcus a écrit : >> Hello >> Thank you for making this product available! >> >> In your documentation you say: >> "It is recommended that you run your DRBD replication over a >> "dedicated connection", preferably a "direct, back-to-back, >> Gigabit Ethernet connection." >> >> Does this mean a second NIC (in each host) on the same subnet, >> a second NIC (in each host) on a different, separate switch and >> subnet, >> or a second NIC (in each host) and a configured cross-over cable?? >> >> I am configuring 2 servers on a small network. One as primary >> and the second as a hot standby. I want to use DRBD to >> replicate the data partition. >> >> thanks in advance >> Marcus >> > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com <mailto:drbd-user at lists.linbit.com> > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20121128/641446f4/attachment.htm>