while everybody else is busy discussing opinions I'll bother with the real question...
* Sylvain Coutant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-26 11:29]: > OpenBGPd looks fine for eBGP and iBGP links as long as it does not > "depend on carp". definately "works for me", and I can't imagine where it could break right now. > When a bgp peer depends on a carp interface, OpenBGP does not see the > interface going master and does not trigger connections up. I tried to > "bgpctl reload" manually, but this does nothing. nom config reload won't help. > "bgpctl show interfaces" always show that carp devices never come back > "master" once they entered "backup" state. that is the problem. > My config does just include "depend on carp3" for one eBGP neighbour > in this case. > Is this kind of a bug or do I miss something ? something is strange in any case. can you run "route monitor" in parallel when the failover happens and show the output. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)