From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 14:21:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A703106564A for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kimabrandt@gmx.de) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 992E08FC13 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2011 14:21:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [10.10.10.22]) [94.18.122.170] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 18 Jul 2011 16:21:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #32880209 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX192jt98Z8Z2dlP4OJojHr0DfGjblvsV1sFvU0VEET FplRtNMQp1MCEK Message-ID: <4E244166.2080104@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:21:26 +0200 From: "Kim A. Brandt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kim A. Brandt" References: <4E243D8F.1020305@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4E243D8F.1020305@gmx.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms010803020108030501030005" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CARP-interface fail-over in case required program fails. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:21:30 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010803020108030501030005 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I guess one could monitor (!?) the program and ``Force Failover of the Ma= ster''[1] in case of errors. Is this the preferred way of doing it, and i= f so what are common ways of monitoring programs and executing actions on= (monitor-)state changes? /Kim [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html#forcefail On 2011-07-18 16:05, Kim A. Brandt wrote: > Hello list, > > is it possible to let a CARP-interface fail(-over) in the situation whe= n a certain program fails or stops working? I hope it's clear enough what= I have in mind. Could you give me any pointers on how this can be archiv= ed? > > /Kim --------------ms010803020108030501030005--