Hi Freek, On 06/04/2012 12:29, D'Hooge Freek wrote: > How can you assign a different vlan on network ports that are part of the > same bond? > I would think this would break your bonding, meaning you tested on a bond > that has only 1 working network port to begin with. Correct. It was exactly that - a totally miss-configured bonding. It was due to a misunderstanding between the sysadmin group and the dba group that provided the installation requirements. We noticed that error during the HA tests ... > The reason why you need to use separate subnets when using HAIP with multiple > nics is the os routing. When you have multiple ip addresses in the same > subnet on a server, it is the routing table which determines the interface to > be used for outgoing traffic. > If that interface fails, the routing table will not be changed and thus all > communications break. > > This is also the reason why one should not use ifdown to test network > failures. > It does things to cleanly, like removing the entry for that interface from > the routing table. Thanks for the explanation! Best regards Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l