Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:39:31 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Subject: Re: CARP not balancing automatically Message-ID: <200610240739.39115.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <5F2498BF-8821-40C0-B815-2C7E552056AC@khera.org> References: <8F9483A9-D387-443E-A325-356958211153@khera.org> <05BE5E0E-0A4A-4946-8650-3608EBAF540E@khera.org> <5F2498BF-8821-40C0-B815-2C7E552056AC@khera.org>
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--nextPart2515378.9YrjiKaIuv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 23 October 2006 22:38, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: > >> Sounds like you forgot the net.inet.carp.preempt sysctl. See the > >> begining > >> of the EXAMPLES section of carp(4). > > > > But I don't have multiple interfaces that all need to go up/down > > together. I need one carp interface to be master and one backup on > > box A, and the opposite master/backup on box B. Or am I totally > > misunderstanding with the preemtp sysctl is for? > > Forgot to mention that setting preempt sysctl does instantly make the > carp load balanced interfaces work as expected: balancing the load by > offering one master on each server. > > So I'll say that the example needs to be made more clear that preempt > needs to be on. Make a suggestion on how it should be worded and submit as a doc PR. > It seems to me that preempt off is a mostly useless=20 > configuraiton for load balance, but probably not for just simple > failover. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart2515378.9YrjiKaIuv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFPacbXyyEoT62BG0RAnYHAKCAwe3kzA1t4gjyFr1EJpTpXED0SACfaq4Y IPisN3nkg+Ee12T9LYSdRGQ= =3OLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2515378.9YrjiKaIuv--
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