* Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> [2014-05-08 13:03]: > On 08/05/2014 11:25, Henning Brauer wrote: > > you shouldn't see issues but log spam. > maybe you misunderstand the problem. If you have vrrp and carp on the same > vlan, using the same vrrp group ID as VHID, then each virtual IP will arp > for the same mac address on that vlan.
correct. > This messes up the switch's forwarding table for that particular vlan > because it sees multiple entries from different ports for the same mac > address. correct. my switches seem to deal with that, wether they have special handling for that mac addr range or not i dunno. again, stress the fact that afair we have gotten zero reports about that "issue" for 10 years, it obviously means that either 1) a vast majority of switches deal with it just fine 2) people know that vhids shouldn't clash and avoid that -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, AG Hamburg HRB 128289, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, VMs/PVS, Application Hosting
