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[Fwd: Re: wackamole handling of spread daemon crash]
Any way to configure wackamole not to crash all the interfaces if a
local spread daemon dies ? See detailed description of a problem below.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: wackamole handling of spread daemon crash
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:17:43 -0400
From: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@omniti.com>
To: Dmitry Korsun <dkorsu@corp.idt.net>
CC: wackamole@backhand.org
References: <42569836.3030909@corp.idt.net>



Dmitry Korsun wrote:

> Hi,
> We are exploring a possibility of using wackamole to increase
> availability of critical TCP servers. While staging different crash
> scenarios, we observed that wackamole does not handle a crash of a
> local spread daemon very nicely - it effectively breaks existing
> network interfaces (not just virtual, but physical as well) rendering
> the entire machine unreachable via network and requiring a local
> reboot. Is this a configuration issue or is there a patch for this
> kind of behavior ?
> If this question is adderssed to the wrong person(s), can you
> please provide a reference to a mailing list or a direct contact where
> I can find the answer.
> I appreciate any help,

Sounds like a configuration issue... but address the message to
wackamole-users@lists.backhand.org


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