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Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Christian Pisacane — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:02:31 GMT

Hi, I have 2 nodes running oracle 9 IRac, each of one have 2 Hyper Fabric HF2 card.
I have a doubt regarding de IP address of each card.

NODE 1
HF2 - A = 192.0.0.5
HF2- B = ???????

NODE 2
HF2 - A = 192.0.0.6
HF2 - B = ???????

Se second card on each node, must be in the same subnet? 192.0.0.x or in another net?
192.0.1.x?

Regads.

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Hein van den Heuvel — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:31:21 GMT

Did you check the hp - oracle - ctc resources?

http://www.hporaclectc.com/cug/index.html

Like:
http://www.hporaclectc.com/cug/database/9iRAChp.html

Also available as:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle9i/htdocs/9iRAChp.html#4

This comes close to answerring your question directly, but not eactly :-(.

Still, there are plenty of good links there.
For example to:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/A95979_02.pdf
"Use the following parameters to specify the relocatable IP address in the Oracle9i
Real Application Clusters Guard setup configuration file:
â PFS_IP_PACK_HOSTA
â PFS_IP_PACK_HOSTB
After you run the PFSSETUP utility, as described in Chapter 2,"

Good luck!

Hei

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:56:47 GMT

My basic experience with HP-UX.

You can not have two NIC cards on the same machine on the same subnet and network.

So

192.168.0.10
255.255.255.0

and

10.1.10.10
255.255.255.0

is okay

but
192.168.0.10
255.255.255.0

and

192.168.0.11
255.255.255.0

is not.

The latter will lock networking and cause your machine to drop right off the network.

SEP

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:49:32 GMT

Check out a rrecent eply by Stephen Doud to forum topic:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=235156

It points to an overview:
http://techcom.cup.hp.com/dir_hyperfabric/hfint_home.htm

And the docset for setting up HF:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#HyperFabric

Hein.

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Christian Pisacane — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:56:35 GMT

Thanks for the answers, another one, how can achive access to hporaclectc.com?

Regards

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:19:11 GMT

Ooops, so sorry. That is a restricted access website (oracle, hp, selected partners).

Best follow that alternative pointer I also posted.

Sorry 'bout that!
Hein.

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

rick jones — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:21:17 GMT

Configuring multiple physical (from the standpoint of the transport) interfaces into the same IP subnet requires a bit of care, but it can be done. As pointed-out though, it is generally much easier to have things in separate subnets, and when you want stuff like fail-over and such, use APA (Auto-Port Aggregation).

I have no idea if APA support HF. I suspect not, which means if you want fail-over it will have to be via ServiceGuard, or something in RAC.

Re: Basic Networking question regarding Hyper Fabric HF2

Christian Pisacane — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:33:58 GMT

I have this new notice, the version of HyperFabric Driver 11.11.03 with point to point connection, dosen't work properly, in fact the transparent local failover dosen't work in this configuration.
And the Oracle IRac dosen't work properly too.

There is a new verision of the driver 11.11.09, delivered half year ago only for to customer in europe, that fix this problem, for the rest of the people, we must wait until April 14 for the new release of the driver with "this fix"

Regards.