From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 12:07:12 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 2A34F106566B; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at) Received: from emailsecure.uni-linz.ac.at (emailsecure.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.3.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AE08FC0C; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Ferdinand Goldmann In-Reply-To: <86mxfhyfy7.fsf@in138.ua3> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:07:10 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <577E10A2-9193-4E36-A7DC-AAC1AA816104@jku.at> References: <86mxfhyfy7.fsf@in138.ua3> To: Mikolaj Golub X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem using CARP + HAST ... 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: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:07:12 -0000 On 10.08.2011, at 7:48, Mikolaj Golub wrote: > What freebsd are you running on? I suppose it is release, because on = STABLE > this issue should be fixed -- the secondary terminates after timeout. I was running 8.2-RELEASE-p2 and now just upgraded to 8.2-STABLE. This = really seems to have helped: The slave now times out without intervention, allowing = himself to become the new master. Once the (old) master is online again, it will = take over from the slave.=20 The split-brain problem then of course has to be resolved manually as = described in the manual. But as I am using mostly static data and - most likely - no changes will = occur as long as the slave is master, this is not a big deal. Thanks for your advice & best regards, Ferdinand=