From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 07:00:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A22816A404 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [69.147.83.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B0B13C457 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l2T70AC8069783 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:11 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id l2T70AOk069782; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:10 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:10 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200703290700.l2T70AOk069782@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Tom Uffner Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EDA16A402 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:57:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [69.147.83.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1C413C468 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:57:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2T6vM2J081639 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:57:22 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l2T6qLrI080593; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:52:21 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200703290652.l2T6qLrI080593@www.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:52:21 GMT From: Tom Uffner To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.0 Cc: Subject: kern/110999: carp(4) should document unsupported interface types X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:11 -0000 >Number: 110999 >Category: kern >Synopsis: carp(4) should document unsupported interface types >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 29 07:00:10 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tom Uffner >Release: Current and 6.2-stable >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD xiombarg.uffner.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #89: Wed Mar 14 04:41:10 EDT 2007 root@xiombarg.uffner.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XIOMBARG i386 >Description: I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why I couldn't get CARP to work on an if_bridge interface before discovering "%s: carp is not supported for this interface type\n" in the source and finding out that if I had set the sysctl net.inet.carp.log > 1, i would have seen an error message when I tried to ifconfig the carp interface. Ideally, I would like to see CARP supported on bridge interfaces, but failing that, i would like to see the man page for CARP list the interface types that are not supported, or not completely supported. It would also be nice if the failure diagnostic output appeared at the default logging level and not just the higher one. >How-To-Repeat: N/A >Fix: N/A >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: