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shaper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have the following situation:
>
> 2 AIX 5.3 cluster nodes with Oracle DB 10.2.0.2
> The private_interconnect and public network is 1 Gbit. The public
> network is configured as EtherChannel, the interconnect is not. When we
> pull out the cable from private_interconnect then the RAC does not
> failover to the public network. Both instances are hanging and after
> approx. 20 minutes one node is rebooted by CRS because of split-brain.
>
> How can we solve this problem? I think RAC should failover to public
> network when private fails.
>
> Best regards
> Sven
The behaviour you are seeing is normal though a 20 minute hang time is not. Split brain should cause a reboot. Check you NIC cards and AIX to see if keep-alive has been configured.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Sun Jun 04 2006 - 13:55:25 CDT