I was also able to reproduce the problem on a smaller, 4 node cluster. Again, only 1st node had bad network. No load traffic at all during the test. New logs attached as logs3.tgz. After some time of working, eventually nodes 2,3 and 4 went down with status like this: percona2 mysql> show status like 'ws%'; +----------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | wsrep_local_state_uuid | eb4b0cbb-88ea-11e3-bcab-160cab62cdb7 | | wsrep_protocol_version | 4 | | wsrep_last_committed | 0 | | wsrep_replicated | 0 | | wsrep_replicated_bytes | 0 | | wsrep_received | 44 | | wsrep_received_bytes | 10425 | | wsrep_local_commits | 0 | | wsrep_local_cert_failures | 0 | | wsrep_local_replays | 0 | | wsrep_local_send_queue | 0 | | wsrep_local_send_queue_avg | 0.000000 | | wsrep_local_recv_queue | 0 | | wsrep_local_recv_queue_avg | 0.000000 | | wsrep_flow_control_paused | 0.000000 | | wsrep_flow_control_sent | 0 | | wsrep_flow_control_recv | 0 | | wsrep_cert_deps_distance | 0.000000 | | wsrep_apply_oooe | 0.000000 | | wsrep_apply_oool | 0.000000 | | wsrep_apply_window | 0.000000 | | wsrep_commit_oooe | 0.000000 | | wsrep_commit_oool | 0.000000 | | wsrep_commit_window | 0.000000 | | wsrep_local_state | 0 | | wsrep_local_state_comment | Initialized | | wsrep_cert_index_size | 0 | | wsrep_causal_reads | 0 | | wsrep_incoming_addresses | | | wsrep_cluster_conf_id | 18446744073709551615 | | wsrep_cluster_size | 0 | | wsrep_cluster_state_uuid | eb4b0cbb-88ea-11e3-bcab-160cab62cdb7 | | wsrep_cluster_status | non-Primary | | wsrep_connected | ON | | wsrep_local_bf_aborts | 0 | | wsrep_local_index | 18446744073709551615 | | wsrep_provider_name | Galera | | wsrep_provider_vendor | Codership Oy