Hi, The cluster interconnect should not be configured with Virtual IP. Load balancing is at the connection level. So if the users disconnect and reconnect, they will connect to the correct node. Have found Mike Ault and Madhu Tumma's book on RAC quite informative. Metalink also has some useful articles. Regards Joseph Amalraj johan Eriksson <johan.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, Our setup is oracle 10.2 on Red hat linux 3 and some connections came from an JBoss application server. We are testing our RAC system and it has resulted in some questions and problems. So if anyone could explain the behaviour, point me to relevant documentation or/and recommend the best book(s) about RAC I would be happy man again. The first problem we have are: They did bring down the interface that interconnect was using on one of the nodes while running queries on both the nodes. On node1 the query was executed as it should and on node2 it hanged (was on this node they disabled the network interface). When checking with ifconfig the VIP adress from node2 had been transferred to node1 (this is how it should work if I understand it correctly) and on node2 the VIP was gone. But when we bring back eth1 on node2 again nothing happens, VIP is still on node1, we have tried to restart everything but nothing happens, node2 it still unavailible... Should this work automatically or is it manual work that is the intended solution? What is the default behaviour if the interconnect goes down? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l