On 2013/04/03 15:43, Camiel Dobbelaar wrote: > > > On 4/3/13 3:34 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >>In some cases when a network port comes up, it does not indicate that > >>the network is ready. But on linkup, carp(4) will try to get out of > >>the INIT state as soon as possible. And because all is quiet it will > >>decide to become master. > >>Anyone else observe/fix this by other means? Opinions? > >> > >> > >slightly messy, though at least this also applies to the case with > >things other than carp which could also have problems: add "!sleep 5" > >or something in hostname.if for the physical interface... > > Yes, I already use that. That solves the case where the system with > the carp interfaces itself is rebooted. > > But not the other cases. Hence I'd like that sleep applied always, > instead of only when /etc/netstart is run. :-)
Ah, I see what you mean. Still there are things other than carp where this might also apply - for example the pfsync initial_bulk that gets handled via if_linkstatehooks (but maybe also userland things)..
