On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Jaap Winius <jwin...@umrk.nl> wrote: > Quoting Derrick Brashear <sha...@gmail.com>: > >>> Yeah, I suspected that would be a problem... despite the fact that the >>> names >>> following the "#" behind the IP addresses would be the same. So, I'll >>> just >>> use one IP address per server in the CellServDB files of the DB/file >>> server >>> machines and let the routing system take care of any communications >>> problems. >> >> Careful here. Things get fun if more than one server ends up believing >> it is the "lowest host" (by IP, numerically) and thus has a tiebreaker >> vote. > > I can imagine, but I don't think that will be a problem in this case. Each > database server should never consider that it has any other IP address > except one in particular. The single IP addresses that they each use to > reach their remote companions will never change either. Only the routing in > between will occasionally change as needed when the main links go down and > up.
Sure, but will any host's address for some other host be lower than its own address while at the same time that host itself *should be* the lowest host? (It's too early; Does that make sense?) -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info