On 2020-11-04, Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks > > short question about hostname.carp1: Is it > > inet 10.0.1.1 0xffffff00 NONE vhid 41 pass secret carpdev em1 advbase 1 > advskew 0 > or > inet 10.0.1.1 0xffffff00 vhid 41 pass secret carpdev em1 advbase 1 > advskew 0 > > ?
hostname.if uses an unintuitive syntax for inet/inet6 lines that often causes confusion. If you want to pass a command directly you can use !ifconfig carp1 (whatever) but I prefer this multi-line vhid 41 pass secret advbase 1 advskew 0 carpdev em1 inet 10.0.1.1/24 The manual says "The configuration information is expressed in a line-by-line packed format which makes the most common cases simpler; those dense formats are described below" I agred with "dense" but "simpler" is quite a stretch...
