On Apr 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Bill Moran wrote:

> I don't understand the question.  What do you mean by "network
> partition" and how does this represent a failure scenario?

Normally all hosts can see every other one. When your network is  
partitioned, you end up with at least two subsets which can still see  
every other host within that subset, bot none of the hosts in the  
other subset(s).