Hi, On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:47:40PM -0400, Graham, Simon wrote: > Apologies if this has been asked before, but I have noticed that the > heartbeat service fails to start if any of the interfaces mentioned in > the ha.cf file are down at the time the service starts - heartbeat is > quite happy to handle interfaces going down once it is running, but if > it cant get the broadcast/multicast address from the interface at > startup time, it just bails.
See http://old.linux-foundation.org/developer_bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1732 for some discussion on communication interfaces. > This seems somewhat counter to the idea of high availability but I'd > like to understand the design center for this behavior before I start > trying to 'fix' it... What are your circumstances? In which situations should the interface be down? Thanks, Dejan > > Thanks, > > Simon > > _______________________________________________________ > Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev > Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/ _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/