Greetings all... This was probably discussed before, but I couldn't really find anything in the archives.
1) We have a carp0 interface with a few aliases in it, and carp works fine between master (SERVER-A) and backup (SERVER-B)... until... 2) ... we plumb a another new alias into SERVER-B's carp0. Then the status of carp0 on SERVER-B goes from BACKUP to MASTER, even though the advskew on SERVER-A is lower (0) than SERVER-B's advskew (127). 3) Now, we have both servers saying carp0 is MASTER, and some connectivity problems going on, and this in the logs: Sep 15 04:00:02 fw1 /bsd: carp0: incorrect hash 4) We haven't tested it, but it seems that if we have added the alias to SERVER-A first, the problem would still happen, because the hash would be different as well. Question: whats the best way to add an alias to carp, and avoid this problem? I know we can switch shells very fast and execute the ifconfig command in both servers a second or two apart, but I guess most ppl would agree this is not is not an elegant solution. We are running 3.9-stable Thank you very much ;)
