9iR2 RAC networks

Can someone confirm or deny the following for me please (or point to the relevant docs page which I cant seem to find)

If the private interconnect on a specific node fails, then Oracle fails over to the public interface.

If both go down (or the machine does) then the node is evicted from the Clu= ster?

Thanks

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