Re: RAC VIP related question

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:35:53 -0800, Valentin Minzatu wrote:

> It's been a while since I read about it and now it looks like I am no
> longer able to find where I read it from: does anybody know which
> document/whitepaper describes the behavior of VIPs and services in
> conjunction with connection requests?
>
> To be a little bit more explicit, few days ago after setting up a 2
> nodes cluster (10.1.0.5 on RH AS4 Update 3) and configuring a service
> with Preferred = Node #1, Available = Node #2, TAF Policy =
> Pre-connect, I noticed that incoming connection requests addressed to
> Node#2 were redirected to the *real name* of Node #1 (instead of its
> VIP as I was expecting). So, now I wonder, is this intended behavior or
> I missed something in the configuration. Not having a document to refer
> to makes things even more "interesting".
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin

For me, this is the expected behavior.

The VIP is really an IP alias. This alias can be moved around, when stopping instances for example. Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 08:51:37 CST