SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAXIMIZING CONNECTIVITY DURING NETWORK FAILURES IN A CLUSTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM EMBEDDED THEREON FOR EXECUTING THE SAME METHOD

摘要

The present invention relates to an apparatus, method and system for maximizing network connectivity after a network failure in a network cluster system. The cluster master of the cluster is based in part on gender of the members connected to the adjacent network, it manages the membership (membership) for the cluster. The network device sends information about this gender connected to the cluster master. The cluster master compares the received information to determine if the network device has connectivity to the cluster and the other. Note that if the network device has a different connectivity, the cluster master may deny cluster membership to the network device. By rejecting network devices with different connectivity, the invention ensures that the transmission can be substantially the same reliability by virtually any of the cluster members is a data received by the cluster. Thus, even the cluster master may be rejected from membership to the cluster. ; Cluster system, the network device, connectivity information, a cluster master.