[Gluster-users] How to configure with mixed LAN addresses?

[Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov]

gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org wrote on 04/19/2011 11:07:09 AM:

> I didn't title this well, so let me phrase that better. With 2-system
> replicated mirror, there is a speed and reliability advantage in joining
> those two systems with a crossover cable and putting those two nics in
their
> own private address space. Gluster-as-server is happy to do that.
>
> Gluster-as-client isn't happy in this arrangement, when the client is
coming
> in from the normal LAN addresses rather than the private addresses the
> mirroring is using. This appears to be because the default behavior is
for
> the client to download the volume file from the servers, which then
contains
> the private IPs, which aren't available from the client's perspective.
>
> I knon in past versions of gluster the choice of the client downloading
that
> file, or having its own copy, was configurable. It's not clear from the
> current stripped-down documentation whether that's still the case. Or if
it
> is, I don't find discussion of how to configure the client to work right
in
> this sort of setup. As it is, the client just hangs on the initial mount
> request, and sits there consuming 100% of cpu until killed. Of course,
> better behavior would be for the client to throw an error and quit in a
> polite way - hanging at 100% cpu is just wrong.

So... I've a very similar configuration, and while it is strongly
discouraged by Gluster proper, we just place the configured client files on
the machines and do it that way.

-greg