Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Beck
Are you allowing the carp traffic in and out? This is the more common fuckup I make when configuring them that has this result. make sure the carp and pfsync traffic makes it in and out.

Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Josh
Dag Richards wrote: Your understanding of preempt seems correct I had a similar issue on a pair of 4.1 FW's. A careful examination revealed that one of the carp ifaces on one system had ip addrs that were missing on the other. Carefully compare ifconfig -aA on each machine to each other. I

Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Josh
Hello, A quick question. I have a pair of 4.1 boxes acting as firewalls using carp/pfsync etc. The primary has advskew 0, the backup has advskew 100. I have net.inet.carp.preempt=1 on both. So anyway, I was downloading some 4.2 install binaries onto the backup fw, and I noticed that the

Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/06 10:06, Josh wrote: So anyway, I was downloading some 4.2 install binaries onto the backup fw, and I noticed that the backup/primary carp interfaces kept on switching between master/backup fairly rapidly ( around every 5 - 10 seconds or so ) despite both hosts being up just

Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Josh
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/12/06 11:48, Josh wrote: I will investigate what Stuart Henderson mentioned. If it's that, tcpdump on the parent iface will show proto 112 IPv6 packets every few seconds, and ifconfig carpXX destroy sh /etc/netstart carpXX should clear things out. It does not

Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Dag Richards
Josh wrote: Hello, A quick question. I have a pair of 4.1 boxes acting as firewalls using carp/pfsync etc. The primary has advskew 0, the backup has advskew 100. I have net.inet.carp.preempt=1 on both. So anyway, I was downloading some 4.2 install binaries onto the backup fw, and I noticed

Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/06 11:48, Josh wrote: I will investigate what Stuart Henderson mentioned. If it's that, tcpdump on the parent iface will show proto 112 IPv6 packets every few seconds, and ifconfig carpXX destroy sh /etc/netstart carpXX should clear things out. It does not happen all the time, just