On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:09:03AM +0900, Ryan McBride wrote: > Part of the reason it's there is to make carp work properly for services > listening on the carp interface, in particular so that hosts in the > BACKUP state will reach the MASTER rather than trying and failing to > connect to their own carp interface. Maybe not needed in all setups, but > likely to break things if we simply remove it.
Why do you want to connect from the BACKUP machine to the MASTER using CARP addresses? Just add another fixed address and you can do that. The current implementation may change the routing table in subtile ways until nothing works. In IPv6 the routes are fixed and there are less problems. bluhm
