WACKAMOLE(8) User Manuals WACKAMOLE(8)NAMEwackamole - IP-failover high-availability tool
SYNOPSISwackamole [-v] [-c config_file ] [ -s spread ] [-u user ] [ -d ]
DESCRIPTIONwackamole runs the Wackamole IP-failover HA tool using the wack‐
amole.conf file as a base configuration.
OPTIONS-v Display version information and exit.
-d Turn on debugging and do not daemonize.
-u user
Instruct wackamole to use user instread of Wack<pid> as it's
username when connecting to Spread.
-s spread_loc
Connect to Spread running at spread_loc
-c config-file
Use an alternate configuration file config-file instead of wack‐
amole.conf.
FILES
wackamole.conf
The default config file location is dependant on the install
prefix. ./wackamole.conf is also searched if a local file is
not found.
DIAGNOSTICS
By default, Wackamole will log any errors to syslog. Check the appro‐
priate log desitnation on your platform.
BUGS
Linux Wackamole makes extensive use of ioctl()s on network devices.
When dropping and interface such as eth0:4, all subsequent
interfaces (eth0:5, etc.) will disappear and no longer function.
There has been special code added that causes Wackamole on Linux
to iterate through all IP addresses after a balancing round and
attempt to re-plumb them. This may cause gratuitous entries to
syslog as well as extra unsolicited ARP responses.
Solaris
Solaris' local arp-cache is, as far as the author is aware, com‐
pletely undocumented. The code in Wackamole to open /dev/ip and
attempt to read the ARP cache was written only by looking at the
output of truss arp -an and should be considered a "stab in the
dark."
AUTHOR
Yair Amir <yairamir@cnds.jhu.edu>
Ryan Caudy <wyvern@cnds.jhu.edu>
Aashima Munjal <munjal@cnds.jhu.edu>
Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@cnds.jhu.edu>
SEE ALSOwackamole.conf(5),wackatrl(1)Wackamole May 2014 WACKAMOLE(8)
