On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Dimitri Rodis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One last thing:
>
>  Is there currently any way to *not* assign an IP directly to the WAN
>  interface in a CARP config?
>

No, not at this time.


>  Since the IPs assigned directly to the WAN can't be used in a failover
>  situation (if I understand correctly), I would like to not have to use
>  an extra public static IP to set up each CARP member.
>
>  I was thinking that *maybe* if I just assigned an IP from a private
>  address range to the WAN interface (obviously NOT an address I'm using
>  internally on the LAN side), but actually used the correct subnet mask
>  and gateway address for my public subnet, maybe it would work if I
>  changed AON to NOT use the "default" IP on the WAN. Does that make
>  sense?
>

That won't work, CARP IPs must be within the subnet of an IP address
assigned to that interface.

I believe carpdev addresses this, and I believe we have a patch for
this incorporated into our 1.3 builds, though I don't believe it's
been tested much if at all yet.

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