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The Basics of IPv4 Subnet and Oracle Clusterware (Doc ID 1386709.1)

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Purpose
Scope
Details
A. What's IPv4 Subnet
B. Calculate Subnet ID online with ifconfig output
C. Find out Subnet ID from oifcfg
D. Subnet Info in Oracle Clusterware - OCR
E. Subnet Info in Oracle Clusterware - Nodeapps(network resource)
Community Discussions
References

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later

Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 10.2 to 11.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

PURPOSE

Network information in Oracle Clusterware MUST be consistent with the setting on OS level. This note explains the basics
of IPv4 subnet and Oracle Clusterware (CRS or Grid Infrastructure)

SCOPE

DETAILS

A. What's IPv4 Subnet

The IP subnet is a logical separation of IP addresses bounded by the subnet mask. The first address is used as the
Subnet Identification (subnet ID or subnet number or route definition) while the last is the broadcast address.

For example, subnet ID 10.1.0.0 and netmask 255.255.255.128 produces an IP range of 10.1.0.0 - 10.1.0.127. In this
range, 10.1.0.0 is the subnet ID and 10.1.0.127 is the broadcast address. Changing the netmask to 255.255.254.0, the IP
range will be 10.1.0.0 - 10.1.1.255 where the broadcast address is now 10.1.1.255.

B. Calculate Subnet ID online with ifconfig output

Some websites can be used to calculate subnet ID if IP address and netmask is known, search for "subnet calculator" to
find them.

Assuming the following as ifconfig output of a network adapter:

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eth7 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:11:22:88

..
inet 10.xxx.xx.108 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 10.220.15.255

For this subnet, netmask is 255.255.248.0 (converted from hex 0xfffff800), broadcast is 10.220.15.255 and subnet ID is
10.220.8.0

C. Find out Subnet ID from oifcfg

oifcfg from Oracle Clusterware (CRS or Grid Infrastructure) can also be used to find out subnet ID and netmask:

$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/oifcfg iflist -p -n
eth0 10.208.4.0 PRIVATE 255.255.255.0
eth1 10.1.0.128 PRIVATE 255.255.255.128
eth1 169.254.0.0 UNKNOWN 255.255.0.0

Note:

The first column is the network adapter name

The second column is the subnet ID

The third column indicates whether it's private, public or unknown according to RFC standard,
it has NOTHING to do whether it's used as private or public network in Oracle Clusterware

The last column is the netmask

D. Subnet Info in Oracle Clusterware - OCR

Both public and private network information are stored in OCR.

For pre-11.2, the private network information in OCR is used by ASM and database instances; for 11.2+, the information is
used by Oracle Clusterware(GI), ASM and databases instances.

To find out what's in OCR:

$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/oifcfg getif
eth1 10.1.0.0 global cluster_interconnect
eth3 120.0.0.0 global public

Note:

The first column is the network adapter name

The second column is the subnet ID

The third column is always "global" and should not be changed

The last column indicates whether it's public or cluster_interconnect(private) in Oracle

Clusterware

To modify:

Network info in OCR can not be modified. To change, as Oracle Clusterware user, remove the incorrect network info and
add it back.

For example, if "eth3" has wrong subnet number in OCR, to fix it, as Oracle Clusterware user:

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$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/oifcfg delif -global eth3

$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth3/120.0.0.0:public

Note: the same network adapter is not allowed to be in OCR for more than once, otherwise the
command will fails with error: PRIF-50: duplicate interface is given in the input

Refer to Document 283684.1 for details to change both public and private network in OCR.

E. Subnet Info in Oracle Clusterware - Nodeapps(network resource)

To find out nodeapps information

For pre-11.2 CRS:

$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/srvctl config nodeapps -n <nodename> -a

VIP exists.: /<racnode1v>/10.1.0.44/255.255.255.128/eth3

Note:

The first column is the node VIP name - in this example "<racnode1v>"

The second column is the node VIP IP address

The third column is the public network netmask for this VIP

The forth column is the network adapter name

For 11.2 GI

$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/srvctl config network

Network exists: 1/10.10.0.0/255.255.255.128/eth3, type static
Network exists: 2/10.20.1.0/255.255.255.128/eth4, type static

$CLUSTERWARE_HOME/bin/srvctl config nodeapps

Network exists: 1/10.10.0.0/255.255.255.128/eth3, type static
VIP exists: /<wirac1fv>/10.10.0.52/10.10.0.0/255.255.255.128/eth3, hosting node <hostname>
GSD exists
ONS exists: Local port 6100, remote port 6200, EM port 2016

Note:

The VIP part is the same as in 10.2

For Network part:

The first column is the network number, default network will have number 1

The second column is the subnet ID, in this example 10.10.10.0 for the first network

The third column is the netmask, in this example both network have 255.255.255.128

The forth column is the network adapter name

"type static" means this is static network instead of a dynamic network (DHCP etc)

Error number/messages associated with mismatch of public network info

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PRCR-1013 : Failed to start resource ora.net1.network

PRCR-1064 : Failed to start resource ora.net1.network on node <hostname>
CRS-2674: Start of 'ora.net1.network' on '<hostname>' failed
PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.<hostname>.vip
CRS-2632: There are no more servers to try to place resource 'ora.<hostname>.vip' on that would satisfy its
placement policy

To modify nodeapps (network resource)

As root execute "srvctl modify network -h" for 11.2.0.2 and above or "srvctl modify nodeapps -h" for pre-11.2.0.2. Refer to
note 276434.1 for details.

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REFERENCES

NOTE:1054902.1 - How to Validate Network and Name Resolution Setup for the Clusterware and RAC
NOTE:276434.1 - How to Modify Public Network Information including VIP in Oracle Clusterware
NOTE:283684.1 - How to Modify Private Network Information in Oracle Clusterware
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