[Info-vax] Distant Cluster?

[David Froble]

Michael Moroney wrote:
> gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
> 
>> In article <b9dcb6a6-8b38-4729-9b1e-abac00f3bba1 at googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> There are no inherent problems with a long RECNXINTERVAL other
>>> than (some vague memories I have of) lengthened cluster transistion
>>> times.
> 
>> Good to know.
> 
> The question you have to ask yourself is whether you or your users can
> tolerate random "hangs" by the entire cluster for up to RECNXINTERVAL
> seconds, pretty much any time there is a network glitch such as rebooting
> a switch.  Because that is what wil happen until things resolve themselves
> or some node(s) get kicked out of the cluster.
> 
> Default RECNXINTERVAL is 20 seconds.

That is a timeout value, and only comes into play when the link is down. 
  If the cluster is broken, aren't the users hosed anyway?  I'd rather 
they take a short break and come back to where they left off.  If it 
happens often, then perhaps the core problem should be addressed.

There is "doable" and then there is "prudent".  I'd think a private 
direct link would be prudent.