[Linux-HA] Gratuitous ARP

[Vampire D]

I had it happen where our switch (adtran) would not react properly to the
gratuitous arp and they wrote a new version of the firmware that fixed the
problem.

On 9/13/06, btinsley <btinsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is anyone aware of a condition where a Linux server would not honor a
> gratuitous ARP sent by heartbeat? I'm seeing this sporadically on a few
> systems. I have two LVS servers in an active/passive configuration, which
> provides the default gateway for another cluster. When the IP address for
> the default gateway fails over to the passive server, the ARP tables on
> the
> other cluster servers is not updated. The heartbeat log shows the send_arp
> command being executed and this was verified with a network capture. The
> problem seems to be isolated to the IP address for the default gateway...
> I've never seen it happen with any other virtual IP address.
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