Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CARP related trivial question Message-ID: <4EB16572.4080100@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <1320131981.12930.2.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> References: <1320131981.12930.2.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu>
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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
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