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Subject: Re: CARP & bridge
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Hi,

Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
> So I don't really *NEED* the CARP ip address over the bridge (the static 
> arp works, so I have a working solution, albeit an ugly one; an ARP 
> request generates a reply from every member of the redundant cluster).

Just a guess, you could try adding the VIP/32 to the tap interface,
instead of the static arp thing. Don't know if it will work, it is
just a guess, which looks - to me - like a cleaner configuration.
At least it's rc.conf friendly.

Just my 0.000000002 euros, Nikos