On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:19:17PM +0200, Markus Wernig wrote: > I'm trying to build redundancy into two 3.8 boxes with trunk and carp. > Both boxes have 2 Nics each (fxp and rl), connected to two unmanaged dumb > switches without .1q tagging or other fancies. >
retry with 3.9 http://www.openbsd.org/39.html#new > On both boxes I have: > /etc/hostname.rl0 > up > /etc/hostname.fxp0 > up > > and the corresponding versions of > /etc/hostname.trunk0 > inet 192.168.1.{x,y} 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.255 trunkport fxp0 > trunkport rl0 > > /etc/hostname.carp0 > inet 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.255 vhid 1 advskew {1,10} > carpdev trunk0 > > When booting this gives me a working trunk, but carp0 remains in INIT state. > There is an error in the boot messages like "SIOAIFADDR (Cannot assign > requested address)" (not sure about the SIO..., sorry, I'm not at the > machine at this moment, but the error message is correct). > > When running # sh /etc/netstart manually after login, I get an error > "SIO... No buffer space available" (or similar). When running it a second > time right afterwards, no error message appears, and the carp interface > goes up, replies to one ping (of a constantly running remote ping) and > then goes into BACKUP state (both physical interfaces are up and > connected, trunk failover kindof works (problems being related, i suppose, > to the fact that there is no "failover" trunkproto in 3.8)). The same > happens on the second machine, so that, although I have 4 physical > interfaces up, both carp interfaces are in BACKUP and the carp address is > unavailable to the network. > > Now my question is: Is carp supposed to work on trunk interfaces? If yes: > what trunkproto would be best applied to such a setup? Should it work in > 3.8 already or do I need to grab 3.9 or even -current? > > thx /markus > -- /* .vantronix|secure systems - (research & development) * reyk floeter - friendly known free software engineer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://team.vantronix.net/reyk/ */

