On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Derek Buttineau <[email protected]> [2009-11-26 15:07]:
> > On 2009-11-25, at 6:23 PM, Henning Brauer wrote:
> >
> > > check ifconfig -g carp on both
> >
> >
> > Right now both are at:
> >
> > carp: carp demote count 0
> >
> > However, I did check that before I rebooted the backup unit and the master
> > was
> > set to
> >
> > carp: carp demote count 1
> >
> > At first I thought that maybe pfsync was keeping the master from reverting
> > while it synced state, but even after 24 hours the master hadn't taken back
> > over from the slave.
>
> the one with the higher demote count always loses, regardless of
> advskew. now finding out which subsytem set the demote count might be
> nintrivial. pfsync is in the game, so is rc, and, depending on
> configuration, various daemons like bgpd and ospfd.
It might help to set
sysctl net.inet.carp.log=6
carp does logging about who demoted it:
CARP_LOG(LOG_INFO, nil, ("%s demoted group %s to %d",
ifp->if_xname,
ifgl->ifgl_group->ifg_group, *dm));
