carp + no ip address on iface (only master can receive acks)

2005-11-17 Thread Alex Strawman
one small problem with carp and ip-less interfaces.. scenario: you have no ip address bound to each of the real interfaces, and carp is sharing the one address for you (isp only gives you 1 address). only the master can craft packets out (assuming this shared carp'ed address is the external).

Re: carp + no ip address on iface (only master can receive acks)

2005-11-17 Thread Alex Strawman
Traffic shouldn't even be getting OUT on the backup in this situation. i agree - there is no correct solution without using an ip addr for each real interface. would be nice to for example use an external ntp server to sync with, but unless it uses another route (rather than ip-less carp'd