mardi 17 décembre 2013

How to ping an Oracle RAC intance through the RAC private interface with specific MTU

Some times it is interesting to check that the Oracle private network interface support a specific MTU.
Use the ping cmmand like following :
On Linux system :
/bin/ping -s <MTU> -c 2 -I <private_source_ip> <remote_nodename_priv> 
/bin/traceroute -s <private_source_ip> -r -F  <remote_nodename_priv> <MTU>
On Solaris system :
/usr/sbin/ping -i <private_source_ip> -s <remote_nodename_priv> <MTU>
/usr/sbin/traceroute -s <private_source_ip> -r -F <remote_nodename_priv> <MTU>