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- From: beyer@utrtsc.dec.com (Peter Beyer)
- Subject: Re: Connection manager question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.082855.11727@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan4.134346.28808@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:10:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.134346.28808@news.acns.nwu.edu>, tilden@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert Tilden) writes...
- >Early on in the boot process, nodes in my VaxCluster display the message
- >
- >%CNXMAN SENDING VAXCLUSTER MEMBERSHIP REQUEST TO SYSTEM <NODENAME>
- >
- >What determines the <NODENAME> that the request is sent to? On my system,
- >it is always the same node, but I don't understand why that node has been
- >picked...
- >
- >Bob tilden@nuhepl.phys.nwu.edu
-
- A list is maintained in ascending order by system id and the joining node
- just picks the first available "optimal" cluster member in the list. There
- is some checking involved how "optimal" is defined, like:
- o Protocol level (mixed verison clusters)
- o Eco level
- o Shutdown status
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- /Peter
-
- Peter Beyer
- Windows, Graphics & Multimedia
- Digital Equipment b.v.
- beyer@utrtsc.enet.dec.com
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