[Spread-users] Spread and Networking

[Philippe Bertin]

Daniël,

Did you consider alternatives such as to bond your NICs ? Certain
(bonding) modes require switch configurations, others don't. This could
maybe be a better alternative ?

Kind regards,

PhB

f f wrote:
> I'm currently investing Spread vs JGroups vs Hazelcast, and had some
> questions on Spread and networking. 
> 
> I'm trying to provide some HA/redundancy to my application by mandating
> that all nodes in the cluster, running this application should have
> multiple NICs, each NIC connected to a completely different
> network (e.g. NIC1 on network 10.1.3.*, NIC2 on network 172.16.1.*).
>  This way, if one of the networks go up in flames, there are redundant
> networks available to route application traffic. 
> 
> *_Questions: _*
> 
> 1. Does Spread support this kind of network failover configuration? 
> 
> 2. In the case of a network fault (e.g. bad NIC, bad router), is there a
> way to configure Spread so that it will failover communications to a
> working interface on a given node? 
> 
> 3. Given the following network configuration, would all Spread nodes be
> able to see each other:
> 
>     * 1. Three nodes (node1, node2, and node3) in the cluster 
>     * 2. node2 has two NICs (each on a different network) 
>     * 3. node1 and node2 are connected through one network (e.g 10.1.3.*) 
>     * 4. node2 and node3 are connected through a totally different
>       network (e.g 172.16.1.*) 
> 
> Or is it a requirement that each Spread node should be reachable through
> the network from all other Spread nodes? 
> 
> Thanks in Advance! 
> -- Daniel
> 
> 
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