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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:18:46 +0200
From:      Snoop <snoop@email.it>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CARP related trivial question
Message-ID:  <1319818726.1365.2.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu>
In-Reply-To: <4EA87850.5060103@fisglobal.com>
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Thanks for replying Dave,
that's the problem. There's no module and apparently it's supposed to be
there. Ready to be loaded. :-O
Mistake in the FreeBSD handbook?

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:14 -0700, Robison, Dave wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 12:20, Snoop wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I've got a pretty trivial question but I'm kind of disoriented.
> >
> > In the CARP man pages is clearly stated
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html:
> > __________________________________________________________________
> > "To enable support for CARP, the FreeBSD kernel must be rebuilt as
> > described in Chapter 9 with the following option:
> > device carp
> >
> > Alternatively, the if_carp.ko module can be loaded at boot time. Add the
> > following line to the /boot/loader.conf:
> > if_carp_load="YES" "
> > __________________________________________________________________
> >
> > I'm not new to FreeBSD but I didn't manage to load that as a module, not
> > while the OS is running neither at the startup adding the param on
> > loader.conf.
> > I'd love to do that instead of recompiling the kernel to get that
> > working on any node.
> > I'm talking about FreeBSD 8.1.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> > Any tip would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Does if_carp.ko exist under /boot/kernel/ ?
> 
> If so:
> [root@lefty] ~# ls -lart /boot/kernel | grep if_carp
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    197392 Feb 16  2011 if_carp.ko.symbols
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     44336 Feb 16  2011 if_carp.ko
> [root@lefty] ~# kldload if_carp.ko
> [root@lefty] ~# kldstat | grep if_carp.ko
> 47    1 0xffffffff814fe000 4dd0     if_carp.ko
> [root@lefty] ~#
> 
> should work.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 


 
 
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