Re: Network question - disable access to an IP without running ifdown ?

2014-05-02 Thread James Rogers
arp could help. But your best option is to use heartbeat / pacemaker, and deploy hard fencing such as a networked PDU, or a managed switch. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:27 AM, John Lauro wrote: > Any reason not just using heartbeat on the two nodes? (yum install heartbeat) > Then setup multiple int

Re: Network question - disable access to an IP without running ifdown ?

2014-05-02 Thread John Lauro
Any reason not just using heartbeat on the two nodes? (yum install heartbeat) Then setup multiple interfaces between the two servers and let heartbeat bring services up/down as needed, and heartbeat can control which node has the secondary ip address active, etc. - Original Message - >

Re: Network question - disable access to an IP without running ifdown ?

2014-05-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Don't use the main IP address for your traffic. Use a secondary, virtual IP address on the same port or ports, say "ifcfg-eth0:1", and tie it to any of the common VIP monitoring packages such as is used by the master-master-mysql monitoring program. Basically, they communicate over the available, p