From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 09:08:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D891065670; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:08:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF908FC13; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjg1 with SMTP id jg1so905536bkc.13 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:08:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.119.140 with SMTP id fu12mr10747934bkc.139.1329296913319; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:08:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t17sm5120665bke.6.2012.02.15.01.08.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:08:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3B760A.1060205@my.gd> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:26 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4F3A9237.5080901@barafranca.com> <4F3ADA5E.4060800@barafranca.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3ADA5E.4060800@barafranca.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnYHrFgFWXhzW6c8Gr7dJ1I8mHT9uA4h6FCZUKsa8dfMpy0I96O6z/IG4mjk5rpEZNM2gX4 Cc: Gleb Smirnoff Subject: Re: CARP carpdev X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:08:35 -0000 On 2/14/12 11:04 PM, Hugo Silva wrote: > On 02/14/12 17:33, Freddie Cash wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hugo Silva wrote: >>> Looks like there's been conversations about porting this to FreeBSD >>> since at >>> least 2007. >>> >>> Are there any plans to have ifconfig carpdev available in 9.0-STABLE? >> >> CARP support has been redone in 10-CURRENT, removing the whole "carp0" >> pseudo-interface support, and just enabling the CARP protocol on the >> existing network interfaces. This includes the equivalent of "carpdev" >> support. >> >> Search the -current archives for more information, CFT, and so on. >> >> I don't recall seeing anything about specific plans to MFC to >> stable/9, but could be mis-remembering things. >> > > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=228571 > > The single IP limitation may be a problem in some locations.. > > Did not find anything about a possible MFC either. glebius@ is cc'd, > perhaps he can add something, but based on > http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/UPDATING, I don't think it's been > MFCd (there's a primer for the new carp in current's UPDATING)\ > I think what Gleb meant by "It also allows to run a single redundant IP per interface" is that, like in OpenBSD, you won't need to assign a physical IP address in the same subnet as the CARP IP you want to use, on your system. LEGACY: - 1 physical IP in subnet XY on a physical interface - 1 virtual IP in subnet XY on a carp interface HEAD: - 1 virtual IP in subnet XY on a physical interface Although, you're still allowed to assign a physical IP to suit your needs.