Greetings, On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Pulled the heartbeat network cable from node1. Nothing happens. BUT > when i plug the cable back , then node1 restarted. What am i misssing > here. The Heartbeat network cable should be out for at least 20-30 seconds. If you have connected the data and heartbeat cable or in the same switch, you may need to pull out both. Incidently, you will have to enable multicasting for the heartbeat network in the switch if it is managed switch and assign a seperate VLAN for it. There have been cases in recent past where some of the switches > Also I don't see any thing interesting in /var/log/messages in > node1 after i disconnect the cable. Have you checked node2? HTH With warm regards Rajagopal -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster