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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To: Stephane Raimbault <stephane@enertiasoft.com>
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Subject: Re: How-to use CARP?
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Hi Stephane,

> I'm having a bit of a problem running 5.4-RELEASE and carp.  All the  
> documentation that I read (man carp and other web based sources)  
> indicate to simply create my carp interface as follows:
> 
> ifconfig carp0 create
> 
> However when I run this... I get the following error:
> 
> # ifconfig carp0 create
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument
> #

Add "device carp" to you kernel configuration file and recompile.

Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >