# Resources stuck in "Connecting"

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**Category:** Proxmox VE\
**Tags:** drbd, linstor\
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/resources-stuck-in-connecting/1104 "2025-12-15T00:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DavidMac](https://forums.linbit.com/u/DavidMac)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/resources-stuck-in-connecting/1104/12 "2026-01-15T15:46:23Z")

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Thanks to everyone’s help with the commands to use for investigation, this `drbdsetup show` command helped me find why they aren’t connecting, although I haven’t figured out how to correct it yet.

Reminder of my topology (not all NICs shown):

 ![direct-connections.drawio](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/uploads/linbit/original/1X/3b60527bc7f47522e02c430444d4ca2d94a18c97.png)

According to the `drbsetup show` output, for some reason srv7 is trying to talk to srv8 over the wrong interface i.e. it is trying to connect to 10.4.17.41 from 10.4.17.33. I remember setting prefnic stuff and some settings around this in the past, and everything was working. Now, for some reason this connection affinity stuff isn’t working. Also, my intent was that if a direct connect was down it would route the connection over the admin interface (10.4.0.\*), and testing this also worked at some point.

Some settings seem to have gotten lost. `linstor node-connection list` and `linstor node-connection path list` for any of the three nodes doesn’t show any properties or anything. It looks like there is still a prefnic property set but that isn’t enough. Here is a thread I created when I was first setting up and followed that advice:

> [@Resource connection path for ring topology](https://forums.linbit.com/t/resource-connection-path-for-ring-topology/191):
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> I’m beginning to experiment with linstore on a 3-node proxmox cluster. So far this is looking really promising. Here’s my context and questions. Each node has 3 nics: a management/master nic, and two other nics that are direct-connect to other nodes. I want to configure the data replication to use the direct-connected nics and fall back to the mgmt nic if the link is down. Some questions or issues have arisen that I would like advice on. To elaborate, the data replication would use these li…

I think there are some new capabilities now regarding mutliple paths and direct connects so I’m going to re-read those sections of the manual and see if I can get this working again. I still don’t have root cause of how some of the settings seem gone now but at least there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks for the help!

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