I've successfully setup 2x pfSense boxen with CARP. It is working properly, with ~1 second failover. The following test scenarios work well:
-Unplugging a link (WAN, LAN, etc) -Causing system crash (kill -9 1) -Unplugging both SAS HDDs (actually carp doesn't come into play, system keeps routing traffic happily, even though system errors are flying by on the console) I am finding a situation however where failover is not happening, but I'm not sure if it's *supposed* to in this case: CARP seems to fail over upon NIC link change (down). If I move the WAN (on my primary system)with a CARP IP from a 'live' switch with connectivity to the outside world to a different switch without connectivity to the outside world, I lose all connectivity. I guess my assumption was the loss of *routing* connectivity would trigger CARP, but it appears this isn't the case. To make matters even more confusing, during this time, both my primary and backup system list the WAN CARP IP as Master. Does that make sense? Is this expected behavior or am I missing something? --Tim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
