* Matt Hamilton <ma...@netsight.co.uk> [2012-05-04 11:22]: > I know that OSPF can be configured to demote the carp group until it > has at least one active neighbor, but this is too late. The carp > interface is brought up on boot before the ospfd is started.
carp is demoted until rc is finished, and you start ospfd from rc (.local, .d/ospfd, whatever), right? so that should just work. > Anyone know of a good way to solve this? I'm guessing something along > the lines of demote the carp group *before* the carp interfaces are > brought up (is that even possible?) and then remove the demotion once > OSPF has stabalised. I don't see a nice clean place in the startup > process to do this though unless I hack /etc/netstart or similar which > I don't want to do. as said, carp is demoted (to 128) until rc is done. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/