Per 'man carp'
net.inet.carp.preempt Allow virtual hosts to preempt each other.
It is also used to failover carp interfaces
as a group. When the option is enabled and
one of the carp enabled physical interfaces
goes down, advskew is changed to 240 on all
carp interfaces. See also the first example.
Disabled by default.
--Bill
On 8/27/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott mentioned that functionality required ifdepd .. preempt results in the
> same behavior?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Marquette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Matthew Lenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] wan interface failed causing carp failover
>
>
> That's why a single interface failure didn't fail the whole box over then.
>
> --Bill
>
> On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > not currently no. Mainly cuz I have two firewalls I need to test new
> > versions of pfsense before I can fail it over and upgrade the current
> > MASTER for all the carp interfaces. Once I have everything production
> > ready i'll probably enable preempt again.
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 15:03 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote:
> > > Are you using pre-empt?
> > >
> > > --Bill
> > >
> > > On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I had an interesting thing happen today. The watchdog (atleast thats
> > > > what
> > > > the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface
> > > > (any
> > > > idea why that would have happened?) which caused all my outbound NAT
> > > > to
> > > > longer work. All my private gw (LAN/OPT*) carp interfaces/ips were
> > > > still
> > > > MASTER on fw0 but the the public (WAN) carp interface/ip to which I
> > > > bound
> > > > all my outbound NAT failed over to fw1.
> > > >
> > > > Should this have continued to function?
> > > >
> > > > It didn't. I had to disable carp on fw1 to let it the public carp
> > > > interface
> > > > fail back to fw0 (where all the other private carp interfaces were
> > > > still
> > > > MASTER). It almost seems that all the carp interfaces/ips need to
> > > > failover
> > > > if one of them goes down. Am I missing something? I'm sure I must be.
> > > >
> >
> >
>
