On 5/31/2012 5:31 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 31 May 2012, at 22:31, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 31 May 2012 06:42, Damien Fleuriot <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hey list, >>> >>> The thread about "Why Are You Using FreeBSD", listing the pros and cons >>> of FBSD, has brought back a topic to mind. >>> >>> Recently (read, < 3 months ago) I was experimenting with IPv6 and CARP >>> on 8.x boxes and that crashed them both. >>> >>> I posted a thread on -net and, sadly, never got a single reply. >> >> Did you file a PR? Chances are bz (IPv6 maintainer) has just been very busy. >> :-) >> > > I was actually trying to get some feedback on -net and see if anyone had > encountered the problem before filling a PR. > > I guess I'll reproduce the problem, fill a PR, then post here so we can > discuss it and make things move forward.
We (pfSense) patch things here and there, especially when it comes to CARP, but we haven't seen any crashes with CARP+IPv6 on pfSense 2.1-DEVELOPMENT (now BETA0) since we moved to a base OS of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. It was fairly trivial to crash/hang 8.1 with v6 in general even without CARP. There are several CARP+IPv6 clusters running pfSense 2.1 in the wild handling production traffic like champs.[1] You might have a look at this IPv6 status sheet we try to keep updated: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHlKV2F5SENULWk2NTVvQTBtQ2M0dEE Our patches might also be of interest: https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-tools/blob/master/builder_scripts/patches.RELENG_8_3 https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-tools/tree/master/patches/RELENG_8_3 Jim [1] With a static setup, some work is still happening to make CARP RA work for automatic configuration. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
