Adam Thompson schreef op 8-1-2015 om 17:24:
> On 15-01-08 10:02 AM, Seth Mos wrote:
>> To clarify this a bit better. You speak BGP to your ISP from each
>> pfSense node and generally use CARP as the router address on the
>> internal side. You still need to exchange routes between both pfSense
>> nodes. The moment CARP fails over you drop your BGP session anyhow, so
>> both pfSense nodes need the routing tables (Unless you use default only). 
> 
> Uh...
> 
> https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenBGPD_package
> 
> says it better than I can.  Note that there have been a ton of bug-fixes
> relating to "set nexthop" and CARP in the last year or so, which don't
> appear to have made it into the FreeBSD port yet.
> 
> I run a pair of BGP routers using CARP to an upstream peer who only
> wants to configure a single IP address and a single session.  Works OK
> in practice under OpenBSD, not sure how well the pfSense package
> (FreeBSD port) handles it.
> 

Yep, that's a good reason to use CARP, but you might drop some traffic
on reconfiguration depending on the amount of routes you have.

Regards,
Seth
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