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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:17:33 +0100
From:      Fleuriot Damien <ml@my.gd>
To:        "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: carp regression in 9.1 ?
Message-ID:  <D32D7487-7996-4D18-A3F5-9B60125440EE@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <39FC9737-4F34-4978-BDFE-17410CD2E5C4@my.gd>
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On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote:

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> On 17 Mar 2013, at 11:03, "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> =
wrote:
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>> Hi.
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>> On 14.03.2013 20:47, Fleuriot Damien wrote:
>>> I'm experiencing this odd behavior with 9.1 r24791 for amd64.
>> You should definitely sit on 8.x until 10.x will become stable, or =
upgrade to 10.x from 9.x (at least this is what I do).
>> Carp is entirely rewritten in 10.x branch. In the same time, in 9.x =
carp seems to be desperately broken: for example I was experiencing =
weird panics on boot, weird behaviour, and, when enabling WITNESS, lots =
of carp-related LORs. Furthermore, I was completely unable to boot up =
with a ipv6-enabled carp - I had to initialize it in multiuser with a =
custom script. All of this doesn't happen on 10.x, which I had to =
upgrade to. Right now, if we're talking about carp, my 10.x production =
works like a charm. 9.x branch just isn't destined to production. The =
situation is a bit improved on 9.1, but still I can compare this release =
to 4.6 or 5.0.
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>> Eugene.
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> I'm afraid I can't afford 10.x, this is for production, although I =
acknowledge the problems you're faced with.
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> Regarding 8.x, this is a guest VM running on proxmox 2.3 which doesn't =
support stock 8.x (need the virtio kernel option, I'll get a thread =
reference when I hit work).
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> So yeah I'm kinda fucked here... ;)



The link to the thread on the proxmox forum where many people report 8.x =
not working with proxmox 2.3:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/13013-Error-pfsense-freebsd



Apparently it's now a known bug and is related to a KVM bios update.
A dirty and temporary fix is to use an old bios (say from 2.0 or 2.2) in =
the vm config:
=3D=3D=3D
args: -bios /usr/share/kvm/bios_old.bin
=3D=3D=3D

It seems a fix has been submitted by the devs and it reportedly works:
=
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/13013-Error-pfsense-freebsd?p=3D71136#pos=
t71136


I confirm the updated BIOS (which has already been committed to the =
debian packages) fixes the problems and allows 8.x to boot.

So, I guess I'm going to happily revert that 9.1 to 8.3 eh=85



Still doesn't explain the CARP regressions though :(




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