[Info-vax] Distant Cluster?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <k4u7ta$u1i$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes: 

> >The ugly approach is to increase the cluster timeout past your 
> >networking group's typical network outage interval; see RECNXINTERVAL 
> >here 
> ><http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/84final/4477/4477pro_026.html#clus_sysgen> 
> 
> A switch requires 2 minutes to reboot. So I think this is a bit too long.
> I will think about alternate network paths.

Yes, but it is a dynamic parameter, so you can increase it just long 
enough for the reboot and then set it back.