On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Vaughn L. Reid III <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding of forwarding also was that address learning is a normal > part of switch operation. But, I find it odd that turning that off lets the > fail-over box ping the CARP IP on the primary box, with address learning on, > I am unable to do that. > > A clarification about the Carp setup -- Each PfSense server has a dedicated > interface connected to each other via a crossover cable. This is the > interface that is configured to send and receive pfsync and its related > traffic in the carp setup page. The firewall rules for this dedicated > interface on each server are to allow all traffic on the interface. > > With a dedicated interface for the Carp related stuff to use, do the other > interfaces still send and receive multi-cast pfsync traffic? >
No but they send the multicast CARP traffic on all interfaces where a CARP IP resides. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
