Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:57:36 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Martin W <mw@apathia.net> Subject: Re: CARP section contains wrong info Message-ID: <200908232157.37326.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <4A919822.3070604@apathia.net> References: <4A919822.3070604@apathia.net>
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On Sunday 23 August 2009 21:27:30 Martin W wrote: > Just noticed that the hosta/hostb example on > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/carp.html contains wrong info. > The vhid on a carp cluster should be the same on both hosts when they > are set to share an IP. In the example it shows hosta as having vhid 1 > for carp0, and hostb having vhid 2 for carp0. Also the IP should be the > same, in the example it shows .50 on hosta and .51 on hostb. > It also says "The VHID must also be different for each machine", it > should be "The VHID must also be different for each CARP interface". You are misreading the example. The example talks about individual hosts "hosta" and "hostb" with a backup "provider" that can pick up for either host. This is not the simplest possible setup (and I'm not sure why it was chosen), but it is correct from what I can tell. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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