From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 15:44:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C145F1065784 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:44:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD218FC0C for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so366676eyd.13 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.221.162 with SMTP id r34mr5023778wep.77.1320248696541; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fi11sm4848253wbb.9.2011.11.02.08.44.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EB16572.4080100@my.gd> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1320131981.12930.2.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> In-Reply-To: <1320131981.12930.2.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: CARP related trivial question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:44:58 -0000 On 11/1/11 8:19 AM, Snoop wrote: > Sorry but I have to re-post my question as I didn't get any exhaustive reply. I can't believe that nobody is aware of this anyhow. > P.S. Nop, there aren't related loadable modules in /boot/kernel. > ____________ > > 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. > You have already receive a reply on-list, which asked if you had /boot/kernel/if_carp* files . I haven't followed further so I'm not sure if you ever replied to it or not. Find below the same output from a 8.2-STABLE box: mybsd root /boot/kernel # uname -a FreeBSD mybsd 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Oct 12 16:58:51 CEST 2011 root@mybsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DAM amd64 mybsd root /boot/kernel # ls -la /boot/kernel/if_carp* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44384 Oct 12 17:11 /boot/kernel/if_carp.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 197856 Oct 12 17:11 /boot/kernel/if_carp.ko.symbols