Agreed, this is our standard practice. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LS Cheng Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 12:10 PM To: shivaswamykr@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L Subject: Re: RAC/Cluster - IP Address for OCF2 Hi Use CRS IP, i.e private, bond the NICs so you dont have two points of possible cluster failure Thanks -- LSC On 10/12/07, Shivaswamy Raghunath <shivaswamykr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello. Which IP address c/should we use for OCFS2 communication in a Cluster/RAC environment? I understand that we can use the private IP - one used for interconnect - for OCFS2, since its bandwidth requirement will be marginal when compared to other traffic here. Do you have an opinion or recommendation here? Should we use Public or Private IP? Thanks, Shiva