Getting periodic 'Marking ringid 0 interface xxx FAULTY' error messages on VMWare VMs with vmxnet3 network driver running in a RHEL 6 High Availability cluster with RRP mode enabled

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Issue

  • The cluster nodes are periodically reporting Marking ringid 0 interface 192.168.0.10 FAULTY error messages:

    node1 corosync[3103]:    [TOTEM ] Marking ringid 0 interface 192.168.0.10 FAULTY          <---
node1 corosync[3103]:    [TOTEM ] Automatically recovered ring 0
[...]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.4 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • Cluster packages updated to errata RHBA-2013-0287 or later
  • Redundant cluster heartbeat network
  • VMware Virtual Guests as cluster nodes
  • vmxnet3 driver for network interfaces

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