* Charles Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-10 22:59]: > I've been looking into this some more. Are there any issues which > CARP/OpenBGPd when machines in the CARP group do not have an IP address of > their own - ie. they have only a shared CARP address? > > I find that in this situation, when the CARP master fails the backup router > correctly becomes master and re-establishes BGP sessions. However, the CARP > shared IP address appears in the routing/arp table bound to the localhost > interface. This creates a really nasty routing loop. > > 'route -n show -inet' gives this line: > Dest Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface > 80.x.y.154 00:00:5e:00:01:01 UHLc 1 2 - lo0 > > If I assign each router an IP address in addition to the CARP shared address, > this problem does not appear.
yes,that is the result of games carp plays with routes (which it shouldn not, imo, but anyway). it should finally work as advertised in -current even with unnumbered carpdevs. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
