[Linux-HA] Documentation of heartbeat protocol

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2010-10-13T20:36:59, Steve Davies <davies147 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In particular I am interested to understand the meaning of the various
> sequence numbers and so forth, and their implications when hosts
> fail-over, die, return to active status etc. Basically the sort of
> thing you would find in a protocol RFC.
> 
> Many thanks for any pointers.

The heartbeat protocol and the CCM are not extremely well documented.

For corosync, there's the protocol specification for totem at least. But
I guess most of the things would still be in code ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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