Hi, The ip tiebreaker is primarily used during network split-brain situations in a even numbered (2,4, etc.) cluster. The ip tiebreaker provides the extra vote (to form a quorum (50% + 1)) to determine who should be the next/ new master. cheers, Michael On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:52, Rick Rodgers wrote: > Can anyone explain why this is so. Why is it only used on maintaining > qourum and not startup? > > > "The IP tiebreaker is typically used to *maintain* a quorum after a node > failure, because there are certain network faults in which two nodes may > see the tiebreaker - but not each other. > -- Lon" > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
