Asm does not start on node2

Question

I am trying to build a oracle rac as a test environment at home
I have three desktops
a) node1
b) node2
c) openfiler
I am using Jeffrey hunter's website for instructions on Oracle Rac 10g install using openfiler for iscsi
node1,node2 is configured for 10.2.0.1
When I do the create database with dbca I am getting a message
unable to start asm on node2
The change that I made in the install is as follows
node 1 has two network cards eth0-100 mbps - public ip address and eth1-1Gbit private ip address
node 2 has two network cards eth1-100 mbps - public ip address and eth0- 1gbit private ip address
when linux install was done it automatically assignmed eth0 to the 1gb nic card on node 2
Do you think that this is the issue ?
I post below some part of the asm alert log of node2
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Interface type 1 eth1 192.168.2.0 configured from OCR for use as a cluster interconnect
WARNING 192.168.2.0 could not be translated to a network address error 1
Interface type 1 eth0 192.168.1.0 configured from OCR for use as a public interface
WARNING: No cluster interconnect has been specified. Depending on
the communication driver configured Oracle cluster traffic
may be directed to the public interface of this machine.
Oracle recommends that RAC clustered databases be configured
with a private interconnect for enhanced security and
performance.

Answer 1

I tried various methods but it did not work.
so to resolve the issue since this is a test environment at home I decided to reinstall the whole setup again.
Of course when I installed the Linux o/s (Centos 5.3) the eth0 was detected as the 1Gbps card and the eth1 was detected as 100mbps card of the motherboard.
So I swapped them by de-activating them and logging in as root and opening these files
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
and swapping the lines
HWADDR=<mac address>
from both files.
I activated the cards again and voila - the eth0 is now the 100mbps card and the eth1 is the 1Gbps card
I am having a small doubt with the documentation of Jeffrey Hunter
the doubt is
At the start of the documentation in the o/s network config section
on linux2 he specifies
eth0 -IPv4 Address: 192.168.1.101/ Prefix (Netmask): 255.255.255.0
eth1:-IPv4 Address: 192.168.2.101/ Prefix (Netmask): 255.255.255.0
When vipca fails
His documentation is as follows
quote
[root@linux2 ~]# /u01/app/crs/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth0/192.168.1.0:public
[root@linux2 ~]# /u01/app/crs/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth1/192.168.2.0:cluster_interconnect
[root@linux2 ~]# /u01/app/crs/bin/oifcfg getif
eth0 192.168.1.0 global public
eth1 192.168.2.0 global cluster_interconnect
Now - my question is why the difference between
eth0 -IPv4 Address: *192.168.1.101*/ Prefix (Netmask): 255.255.255.0
eth1:-IPv4 Address: *192.168.2.101*/ Prefix (Netmask): 255.255.255.0
and
[root@linux2 ~]# /u01/app/crs/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth0/192.168.1.0:public
[root@linux2 ~]# /u01/app/crs/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth1/192.168.2.0:cluster_interconnect
Jeffrey hunter's documentation link is below
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http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Oracle10gRAC/CLUSTER_12.shtml
Please help me out with this issue - Thanks a lot....
Edited by: user8523360 on Jan 14, 2010 8:22 AM
My Host file is as follows
===============
# Public Network - (eth0)
192.168.1.100 linux1
192.168.1.101 linux2
# Private Interconnect - (eth1)
192.168.2.100 linux1-priv
192.168.2.101 linux2-priv
# Public Virtual IP (VIP) addresses - (eth0:1)
192.168.1.200 linux1-vip
192.168.1.201 linux2-vip
# Private Storage Network for Openfiler - (eth1)
192.168.1.195 openfiler1
192.168.2.195 openfiler1-priv
Edited by: user8523360 on Jan 14, 2010 8:26 AM