On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Peter Niehues wrote: > Hi misc, > > I'm building an high availability internet gateway using openbsd 4.0. On the > internet side I need more than 100 ip addresses. The idea was to build this > ip's via CARP devices, but now it seems that there is some kind of limitation > on the number of working devices. I can build up to 255 CARP devices and > ifconfig is telling me, that all devices are UP and MASTER. But only the > first 50 devices are working and answering to arp requests. All other > addresses are not accessible and not answering. > > To build the devices I use the following script.
you can assign more than one address to each carp device. > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > i=1 > max=70 > ip=10 > vhid=10 > device=10 > > while [ $i -le $max ] ; do > ifconfig carp$device create > ifconfig carp$device vhid $vhid pass test \ > carpdev bge0 10.0.0.$ip netmask 255.255.255.0 > echo "$i carp$device 10.0.0.$ip vhid $vhid" > i=`expr $i + 1` > device=`expr $device + 1` > ip=`expr $ip + 1` > vhid=`expr $vhid + 1` > done > > btw, pf is still disabled. > > Is there a limitation on the maximal number of carp devices? > > Thanks > Peter > -- > Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehvrt? > Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger > -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
