[Linux-HA] Normal comportment ?

[Alan Robertson]

Alexis Januskiewicz wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I'm using heartbeat between two computers with only one ethernet link 
> (not dedicated, so used by heartbeat *and* network).
> In my ha.cf, I first used :
> bcast eth0
> 
> But, Heartbeat has a very strange comportment : master node sometimes 
> releases resources without any reason ! Using TCPDump, I've seen that 
> this comportment happens when one of the nodes sends packets not 
> regularly. I think heartbeat detects this "group" of packets as a 
> release resource demand. But why ???
> 
> Solution is to use ucast, but I really like to understand why heartbeat 
> has this comportment.
> 
> Any idea ?

No, but if you included the logs, we could tell you what's actually going on.




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