Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:43:12 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Snoop <snoop@email.it> Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CARP related trivial question Message-ID: <201111031043.pA3AhCpq028944@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:18:30 %2B0100." <1320304710.17303.11.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Snoop <snoop@email.it> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:18:30 +0100 > Message-id: <1320304710.17303.11.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> Snoop wrote: > Thanks guys. I think Julian gave me the answer I was looking for. > > On the other hand I believe that CARP handbook/man pages are inaccurate. > I'm not supposed to look for these kind of things on a mailing list. > "Working instructions" are the most important information and have to be > there. I also think that the "arp load balancing" section of CARP is not > that complete. But anyway, it's just my point of view on this very > specific case as I'm generally very happy about the quality of Free/Open > BSD man pages. Man pages are easy to fix ! Just edit the source & send in a diff with send-pr. Handbook pages are harder to edit, cos it uses a tool chain that always breaks for me, so editing source for that is harder, but you can still use send-pr. If necessary let the www@ team reverse your HTML diffs back to their SGML or whatever ;-) > > Thank you all for your time, have a good day. > > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 17:28 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > > > From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> > > > Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0100 > > > Message-id: <4EB16572.4080100@my.gd> > > > > Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Snoop is not on CC line, I hope he's on this list. > > Snoop wrote : > > There aren't related loadable modules in /boot/kernel > > So Snoop must install modules ! > > # cd /sys/`uname -m`/conf && config GENERIC > > cd /usr/src/sys/modules ; make ; make install > > > > > > > > ____________ > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > > > > -- > Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f > > Sponsor: > Vuoi arredare casa con stile? MisterCupido.com realizza perfette Riproduzioni d'Opere d'Arte! Scopri subito le nostre migliori proposte in offerta! > Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=11451&d=3-11 > Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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