From 11.2.0.2 onwards even if single NICs is used for private interconnect Oracle will use HAIP by default. Because of this v$cluster_interconnects view will show HAIP on 11gR2 (11.2.0.2 or later) compared to earlier versions such as 10g or 11gR1.
For example on 11gR1 IPs used for private interconnect could be identified using v$cluster_interconnects view
SQL> select * from gv$cluster_interconnects order by 1; INST_ID NAME IP_ADDRESS IS_ SOURCE ---------- --------------- ---------------- --- ------------------------------- 1 eth1 192.168.1.87 NO Oracle Cluster Repository 2 eth1 192.168.1.88 NO Oracle Cluster RepositoryOr on the database alert log will have following entries
Cluster communication is configured to use the following interface(s) for this instance 192.168.1.88 cluster interconnect IPC version:Oracle UDP/IP (generic) IPC Vendor 1 proto 2However due to HAIP this is not the same on 11gR2, and what you specified during installation is not what you see on v$cluster_interconnects.
SQL> select * from gv$cluster_interconnects order by 1; INST_ID NAME IP_ADDRESS IS_ SOURCE ---------- --------------- ---------------- --- ------------------------------- 1 eth1:1 169.254.73.209 NO 2 eth1:1 169.254.180.78 NO
Grid automatically creates the 169.254.*.* range IPs from the link local addresses that will be used for HAIP. These IPs are visible when ifconfig is executed and will appear on the same NIC assigned to private interconnect IP.
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:7C:F4:94 inet addr:192.168.1.88 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe7c:f494/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1997903 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1680302 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1349158236 (1.2 GiB) TX bytes:965427458 (920.7 MiB) eth1:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:7C:F4:94 inet addr:169.254.73.209 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1Instead of getif option iflist could be used to list the HAIP associated interface.
oifcfg getif eth0 192.168.0.0 global public eth1 192.168.1.0 global cluster_interconnect oifcfg iflist -p -n eth0 192.168.0.0 PRIVATE 255.255.255.0 eth1 192.168.1.0 PRIVATE 255.255.255.0 eth1 169.254.0.0 UNKNOWN 255.255.0.0Both ASM and DB alert log will also list the HAIP instead of the actual IP used during installation. From 11gR2 DB alert log
Cluster communication is configured to use the following interface(s) for this instance 169.254.73.209 cluster interconnect IPC version:Oracle UDP/IP (generic)From ASM alert log
Private Interface 'eth1:1' configured from GPnP for use as a private interconnect. [name='eth1:1', type=1, ip=169.254.73.209, mac=08-00-27-7c-f4-94, net=169.254.0.0/16, mask=255.255.0.0, use=haip:cluster_interconnect/62] Public Interface 'eth0' configured from GPnP for use as a public interface. [name='eth0', type=1, ip=192.168.0.86, mac=08-00-27-c1-59-a3, net=192.168.0.0/24, mask=255.255.255.0, use=public/1]
Useful metalink notes
11gR2 Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip [ID 1210883.1]