On 25 Dec 2012, at 15:06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 12/25/2012 03:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Ah. Is any sort of encryption done for cluster-over-IP? Oh heck no. That sort of overhead's resultant latency would destroy the performance of a cluster on all but the very fastest of machines. Ah, right, I'm forgetting that clustering sends a lot of data. Further, most VMS clusters are built with machines in the same datacenter. It's not generally a wide-area thing. Mmmm, true. Clustering is generally used for practical purposes and not my crazy experiments. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA