Wow someone who has heard of this. Yes, we have our interconnects set to etherfp. LLT link information: Link Tag State Type Pri SAP MTU Addrlen Xmit Recv Err LateHB Broadcast 0 eri0 on etherfp hipri 0xCAFE 1500 6 261840450 240300348 0 89 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 1 ce1 on etherfp hipri 0xCAFE 1500 6 261914713 240332338 0 91 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF we have 2 interconnects but they are of differnts speeds: set-node VLDBN1 set-cluster 10 link eri0 /dev/eri:0 - ether - - link ce1 /dev/ce:1 - ether - - I believe ce1 is the 2 gigabit and eri0 is the 100M This setting was done by our SA. We do have a ce0 which is another 2 gigabit, but our SA wants to leave this for public connection. Do have a similar setup? So if I understand we should try setting set-nofastpath 1 in our /etc/llttab so it will use the slower connection to perform a heartbeat check? Thanks so much for responding. -Lizz Lee Jenkins <lee.jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Lizz, I posted this response on oracle-l, but it doesn't seem to have appeared. On a customer of ours 3 node cluster VCS v3.5 (HP-UX), we had to set "set-nofastpath 1" in /etc/llttab so as to force the heartbeat to operate at 100Mhz. Have you got 2 heart beat interconnects? i.e. redundancy? You can get stats by running lltstat, which shows data volumes and errors. You can run lltstat -l to check the setting of fastpath. "ether" means fastpath is disabled, "etherfp" means enabled. Regards, Lee Lee Jenkins RemoteDBA www.remotedba.co.za Tel: 011 447 0533 Fax: 011 447 0533 Cell: 083 408 0857 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam