On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:
Sounds like you forgot the net.inet.carp.preempt sysctl. See the
begining
of the EXAMPLES section of carp(4).
But I don't have multiple interfaces that all need to go up/down
together. I need one carp interface to be master and one backup on
box A, and the opposite master/backup on box B. Or am I totally
misunderstanding with the preemtp sysctl is for?
Forgot to mention that setting preempt sysctl does instantly make the
carp load balanced interfaces work as expected: balancing the load by
offering one master on each server.
So I'll say that the example needs to be made more clear that preempt
needs to be on. It seems to me that preempt off is a mostly useless
configuraiton for load balance, but probably not for just simple
failover.
