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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:43:22 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tiago Cruz <tiagocruz@b4br.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Help with CARP implementation
Message-ID:  <20060115004322.GL83922@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1137087349.10917.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <1136999785.5995.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060112154527.GV57606@FreeBSD.org> <1137087349.10917.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:35:49PM -0200, Tiago Cruz wrote:
T> > There are examples in 'man 4 carp'.
T> 
T> Yes, I've read all the FAQ from OpenBSD from CARP, man pages of carp and
T> pfsync. But the better article about this I found here:
T> 
T> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/
T> 
T> Following this I can do my redundancy in my LAN interface, BUT:
T> 
T> When I has downloading something, and do a reboot in MASTER firewall,
T> the download is not continued.
T> 
T> Is because I have 02 external links, one in each WAN interface?

Probably yes. Are you doing NAT and each link has NAT to a different
IP address? In this case you can't achieve such level of redundancy
that TCP sessions will survive failure of the one link.

T> What arp balance do exactly? It will be good for my?

You probably don't need it.

T> And... I need to use ifstated?

Only if you need to do something in case of CARP changing state.

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