on 2-17-2009 3:00 AM Sven Kaptein | MARS websolutions spake the following: >>> Dear List, >>> >>> I have one last little problem with setting up an cluster. My gfs >>> Mount will hang as soon as I do an iptables restart on one of the >>> nodes.. > >> Undoubtedly someone else with more experience with GFS will give you an >> answer, but to me this makes me think ip_conntrack stuff gets cleared >> out and sessions have to reestablish themselves. >> >> Ray > > Ray, > > Thanks for your fast answer and getting me into the right direction. This > sounds like a possible solution, but I have no clue how to fix it. I googled > already a lot on ip_conntrack + gfs, but don't see a possible solution > coming up. > > Can someone/you please help me a little bit more with the issue? > > Thanks a lot! > Sven Are your GFS mounts and your cluster on different sides of the firewall? Maybe you can do something simple like a tunnel between the clusters and the mounts. Should be easier and safer than punching holes in the firewall. Or put a separate subnet or vlan just for the GFS traffic. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090217/707ff7ca/attachment-0005.sig>