Hi,

I am working on a project which involves Fail over clustering between 2 nodes. I am using RHCS. I am able to configure the cluster and services to work with it in fail over mode. However, I was not able to bind the Virtual IP resource to a particular interface. I think RHCS is assigning that IP to the interfaces which are holding the IP's configured in the /etc/hosts file.

Is there any way to explicitly set the interface for Virtual IP resource?

Thanks,
Harsha

Have you configured this with Luci? And is the IP a resource for your service..? Need more info.

Hi,

I haven't configured it with Luci. I did it by editing the cluster.conf file. And yes, the IP address is a resource for the service. The database server binds to this IP.

I will explain the scenario in more depth. The two cluster nodes are connected throught 2 networks: 10.0.1.0/24 and 10.0.2.0/24. I have configured the /etc/hosts file to have IP addresses of 10.0.1.0 network. Now if I choose an IP resource for my service, to which interface will it bind? To the interface connecting to 10.0.1.0 network or to the other one? I find no possible way in which we can configure that IP so that it can bind to an interface. I think RHCS binds it according to the network it belongs, i.e., if I give 10.0.1.10 for that IP resource, it binds to the interface connecting to 10.0.1.0 network, if I give 10.0.2.10, then the other interface. Am I correct?

I don't have an RHCS test environment to test this on at the moment, but your hypothesis seems logical. Why not just test..?

That's exactly what it does.

If all nics are properly configured.

The IP resource agent chooses from the IP address given and finds the "NIC" this ip fits in. Taking netmask and the nic's ip into account.