[389-users] Netscape / 389 Multi-Master

[Rich Megginson]

jim at scusting.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old Netscape 6.0 setup which consists of 3 Masters in a 
> multi-master setup which replicate down to various hubs and consumers.
>
> I was planning on building an exact replacement with 389 consisting of 3 
> Multi Masters and the various hubs etc and then settting up one of the 
> 389 masters to replicate back and forth with one of the Netscape 
> masters.  The thinking being that having just one path between Netscape 
> and 389 would keep it simple and make it easy to track changes.
>
> Now I read the limit for Multi-Master is 4 servers.  In the above does 
> that class as 6 Masters, or is the limit per server in which case each 
> server only talks to 2 other Masters, apart from the 389->Netscape 
> gateway Masters which would talk to 3 other Masters?
>   
There really isn't a limit.  The limit was only for the old Red Hat 
Directory Server, and only so far as customer support goes.  The only 
real hard limit is 65534 masters.
> I dont need to have every Master replicate to every other Master do I?  
> This is just while we migrate from ancient Netscape servers to 389, one 
> complete the Netscapes will be turned off and the replication agreements 
> removed on the 389 servers.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim.
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