* Lee Verberne <[email protected]> [2012-07-19 23:46]: > A power supply failed in my 2-node OpenBSD 5.1 unicast CARP cluster > recently. After the failure I noticed that the carp demote counter was > being increased by output errors: > > carp: carp0 demoted group carp by 1 to 1 (> snderrors) > > I tracked this back to the surviving node being unable to arp for the > ethernet address of its carppeer. At least, adding static permanent arp > entries stopped the Oerrs on carp0. > > I'm planning on adding static arp entries as a best-practice now any > time I use unicast CARP. I didn't see any documentation or list traffic > on this topic, though, so I thought I'd ask what others do. Am I > missing something or is this ill-advised?
hmm, interesting one. not too ill-advised (the common problem with static arp entries remain, foremost, they are static, thus changes require extra steps). -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] 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/
