RE: [pfSense Support] CARP - battle of the firewalls

[Alastair Stevens]

Title: RE: [pfSense Support] CARP - battle of the firewalls

Hi - well this sounds interesting, though not very encouraging!  The whole thing is set up on a test bench at the moment, and as it happens, we are using *different* types of switches on different interfaces.  The LANs are using 24-port Netgears, and the WANs are using cheapo D-Link consumer switches temporarily.

All but one are unmanaged, though I think we'll be using the managed ones in the production setup.  This looks like a tricky one to diagnose - maybe it will all 'just work' in production?  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri 14/07/2006 12:00
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] CARP - battle of the firewalls

Check the switches you use at LAN. I think there were some strange errors reported previously with some specific switches where it looked like the keepalive broadcasts were lost somewhere and the backup machine didn't see the master anymore. Are the switches used at WAN and LAN the same model and vendor?

Holger