I partially agree, but coming from Windows networking, linux networking sucks ass out of the box and the basic RTFM. Unless you learn to become a wizard (and I havent) having a balance of performance, HA, and hardware pricing, Windows just works out of the box. That and there is no reason for a hard crash when a single node loses quorum. I'm currently learning about STONITH, but that seems unreasonable when a link goes down due to a packet drop or a STP temporary lockout. Which means yeah, you SHOULD have physically redundant connections for a cluster network... Okay so another set of nics, and another switch, and another 40 ethernet patch cables... I already have 2 48 port switches almost at capacity.