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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:13:07 -0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
To:        kevin <k@kevinkevin.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: carpdev : bad value?
Message-ID:  <a78074950912292313t2b4d64ft38bb53cbf59242ab@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:03 PM, kevin <k@kevinkevin.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I am currently evaluating high availability firewalls with carp
> (7.2-RELEASE, PF) and have run into a problem that I would hope someone here
> can explain for me.
>
> According to OpenBSD's documentation on CARP, they allow an ifconfig carp
> directive called 'carpdev', which allows you to manually specify which
> physical interface you want to be associated with the redundancy group.

Unfortunately the current FreeBSD CARP does not support carpdev...
eri@ is working on bringing our pf subsystem to a newer version, but
someone (TM) must sit down and work on CARP to make some improvements.

There is a LOR between CARP and if_bridge, I have a very brute force
workaround which is not suitable to commit against -HEAD :(

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net



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