[sheepdog-users] Dual NIC questions

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Fri, 29 May 2015 13:24:40 +0200 (CEST),
Walid Moghrabi wrote:
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> Hi, 
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> I configured Sheepdog to use a dedicated IO NIC as explained here : https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog/wiki/Cluster-Management-Backends-and-dual-NIC but I'd like a way to be sure that this is effective because I'm really not sure of it. 
> I have simply my cluster configured on eth0 and my IO NIC on eth1, here is my command line : 
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> /usr/sbin/sheep -i host=172.16.0.102 port=7002 -y 10.1.0.102 --pidfile /var/run/sheep.pid /var/lib/sheepdog /var/lib/sheepdog/disc0,/var/lib/sheepdog/disc1,/var/lib/sheepdog/disc2 
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> This is my second node which is configured with 10.1.0.102 on eth0 and 172.16.0.102 on eth1. 
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> When I'm doing a tcpdump -i eth1, I don't see any packet that could correspond to this (no 172.16.xx src/dst, no 7002 port ...) while creating a new VDI on Sheepdog (restoring a full backup so dozens fo GB). 
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> I find it odd and so, I'm really not sure it is working as expected. 
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> Can somebody help ? 

AFAIK, our team isn't using the dual nic feature. If your network
isn't a bottleneck now, I suggest not to use it.

Thanks,
Hitoshi

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> Regards, 
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> Walid 
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