So if you don't wind up using them for CARP, use them for something else.  Get 
a smaller subnet from your provider and give back the original subnet.
If you have multiple subnets, the provider-facing one should not be used for 
published services; in fact those addresses don't even have to be public IPs!
-Adam

On March 2, 2015 7:32:06 PM CST, Steve Yates <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Using CARP implies that you care about reliability during edge cases
>and partial failures.  If so, then you need to do it right and use 3
>IPs where you want 1 carp.
>
>I hear you. I guess part of me just dislikes the possibility of
>"wasting" 12 or 18 IPs (6 per subnet) a few years down the road, and
>yet getting a block of 128 that might never get used is possible
>also...  Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. 
>
>Steve
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