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Date:      Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:54:31 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@seton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: pf + pfsync + carp testing ...
Message-ID:  <20050301185431.GA81982@cell.sick.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4224B078.9020301@seton.org>
References:  <200502282232.17646.max@love2party.net> <4223931C.9000607@seton.org> <200502282326.41760.max@love2party.net> <4224B078.9020301@seton.org>

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:12:08PM -0600, Matthew Grooms wrote:
M> Thanks Max and Gleb. You have been a great help. The patch applied 
M> cleanly and compiled fine. After configuring a few carp interfaces, they 
M> seem to fail over well. I am curious though, is CARP designed to have 
M> interfaces fail over individually or as a group?

To make backup router preempt the master, when at least one
interface fail you need to set sysctl net.inet.carp.preempt to one.

This is also described in carp(4).

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE



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