[Spread-users] Cant makw two nodes comunnicate

[Pavel Georgiev]

Hi lits,

I`m trying to setup a HA firewall appliance (linux based) with  
wackamole and spread, but it looks like the two nodes can`t 'see' each  
other when I start spread:


Hosts:   id1  , id2
IPs:    192.168.44.1, 192.168.44.2

Spread.conf (the same on both nodes):

Spread_Segment  192.168.44.255:4803 {
         id1     192.168.44.1
         id2     192.168.44.2
}



Here is what I get when starting spread:

on id1:

# /usr/sbin/spread -c /etc/spread.conf -n id1

Conf_load_conf_file: using file: /etc/spread.conf
Successfully configured Segment 0 [192.168.44.255:4803] with 2 procs:
                          id1: 192.168.44.1
                          id2: 192.168.44.2
Finished configuration file.
Hash value for this configuration is: 866147869
Conf_load_conf_file: My name: id1, id: 192.168.44.1, port: 4803
Membership id is ( -1062720511, 1212780535)
--------------------
Configuration at id1 is:
Num Segments 1
         1       192.168.44.255    4803
                 id1                     192.168.44.1
====================




on id2:
# /usr/sbin/spread -c /etc/spread.conf -n id2

Conf_load_conf_file: using file: /etc/spread.conf
Successfully configured Segment 0 [192.168.44.255:4803] with 2 procs:
                          id1: 192.168.44.1
                          id2: 192.168.44.2
Finished configuration file.
Hash value for this configuration is: 866147869
Conf_load_conf_file: My name: id2, id: 192.168.44.2, port: 4803
Membership id is ( -1062720510, 1212780535)
--------------------
Configuration at id2 is:
Num Segments 1
         1       192.168.44.255    4803
                 id2                     192.168.44.2
====================




I`ve run tcpdump and I see that when I start spread it sends few  
broadcasts and they are recieved on the other node but nothing happens  
(like there is noone listening on that port while in fact spread  
listens on 0.0.0.0:4803). After the initial broadcasts eack pread  
nodes starts to send itslelf messages on the loopback interface but  
never tries to querry the other node again.


Am I missing somthing here, is what I`m doing correct and has anyone  
got an idea what the problem might be?

Thanks!