Rolf Sommerhalder([email protected]) on 2015.08.01 17:17:42 +0200: > After upgrading a firewall cluster from 5.6 to 5.7, I observed that > carpX interfaces failed to come up with their settings. > > A manual start 'sh /etc/netstart carpX' ran without errors, although > carpX still did not get its settings from hostname.carpX. > However, 'ifconfig carpX 10.0.8.1 vhid 108' failed: > ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: Invalid argument > > http://www.openbsd.org/57.html revealed that carp(4) now needs to be > configured with an explicit carpdev parent interface (as from 5.7). > Thus adding 'carpdev vlanX' to the ifconfig or hostname.carpX solved > my problem :-) > > Apparently, I had been mentioned in a previous revision of "following > -current", too. > May I suggest to mention it in the "Other changes" section of the > Upgrade 5.6->5.7 document?
maybe, i'll see. > Also, it might be helpful to add carpdev to the examples, which is now > mandatory, in the carp(4) man pages. i just commited an update to that effect. Thanks for your report.
