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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:54:31 +0300
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: pf + pfsync + carp testing ...
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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).

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