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Old 2006-09-07
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Default Multicast/Broadcast Cluster state after HFA04

I just successfully completed my first Hotfix upgrade on our production cluster. Although traffic is flowing and things appear to be normal, I have a question regarding the cphaprob state command.

According to my topology, 192.168.32.44 and .45 are the sync interfaces. 192.168.16.44 and .45 are actually one of the DMZ interfaces.

I have 'funny' results depending on if I use multicast or broadcast.

fw-ep1:
Quote:
[Expert@fw-ep1]# cphaconf set_ccp broadcast
[Expert@fw-ep1]# cphaprob state

Cluster Mode: New High Availability (Primary Up)

Number Unique Address Assigned Load State

1 (local) 192.168.32.44 100% active
2 192.168.16.45 0% standby

fw-ep2:
Quote:
[Expert@fw-ep2]# cphaconf set_ccp broadcast
[Expert@fw-ep2]# cphaprob state

Cluster Mode: New High Availability (Primary Up)

Number Unique Address Assigned Load State

1 192.168.16.44 100% active
2 (local) 192.168.32.45 0% standby
Also, if I set cphaconf set_ccp multicast, then i get different results:
fw-ep1:
Quote:
[Expert@fw-ep1]# cphaconf set_ccp multicast
[Expert@fw-ep1]# cphaprob state

Cluster Mode: New High Availability (Primary Up)

Number Unique Address Assigned Load State

1 (local) 192.168.16.44 0% down
2 192.168.16.45 100% active attention
fw-ep2:
Quote:
[Expert@fw-ep2]# cphaconf set_ccp multicast
[Expert@fw-ep2]# cphaprob state

Cluster Mode: New High Availability (Primary Up)

Number Unique Address Assigned Load State

1 192.168.16.44 0% down
2 (local) 192.168.16.45 100% active attention
Can anyone shed some light on what could be causing this?
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Default Re: Multicast/Broadcast Cluster state after HFA04

Are your clustermembers connected trough switches? Its very much possible they do not accept multicast. Try to disable IGMP snooping on your switch ports while running in multicast mode.
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Old 2006-09-08
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Default Re: Multicast/Broadcast Cluster state after HFA04

Unfortunately I don't have the ability to change the switch configuration at this time. For now I am happy using broadcast mode for the cluster sync, but I am still curious as to why it wants to use different interfaces for broadcast or multicast mode?

Thanks for the help
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