you need a switch which has multicast enabled; (most ethernet switchs have
this capability, some just don't have it enabled)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oisin Kim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sábado, 09 de Junio de 2001 10:11
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Simple Clustering Question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've spent the last while trying to get clustering to work
> with orion server
> 1.5.2 without success. First I tried to follow the instructions at
> http-clustering-howto.html from the documentation, it said:
> Setting up the server
>
> 1. Install orion and start it.
>
> 2. Edit the
> orion/application-deployments/default/defaultWebApp/orion-web.xml
> file and add:
> <cluster-config />
>
> 3. Repeat 1 and 2 for another (or more) box(es).
>
> But when I tried to connect to the server, the server let me
> know that the
> file /orion/default-web-app/WEB-INF/web.xml hadn't got the tag
> <distributable/> in it.
>
> I then added this tag to all servers
> /orion/default-web-app/WEB-INF/web.xml
> file in the cluster, and tried again, this time they actually ran the
> SessionServlet but as if they were being run individually,
> i.e. the session
> wasn't shared as it was supposed to be, I did remember to append
> ;jsessionid=<ID YOU GET ON YOUR BOX1 SCREEN>
> to it and tried both leaving the angle brackets in and out.
>
> I know I must be doing some thing wrong but I can't find it,
> I'd really
> appreciate some help.
>
> I noticed in the http-clustering.html that in the clustering
> it mentions the
> default for multicast host/ip to transmit and receive cluster
> data on is
> 230.0.0.1, port number 9127, does this mean I have to have a
> network card
> listening on this IP/port?
>
> What exactly is a network with operational multicast
> facilities, is plain
> 100Mbs ethernet running on linux OK?
>
> Thanks,
> Oisin
>
