From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 13 12:10:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9B816A492 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from s200aog12.obsmtp.com (s200aog12.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AA7943D9A for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from source ([63.174.175.251]) by eu1sys200aob012.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:09 UTC Received: from [0.0.0.0] (unknown [10.0.0.37]) by bbbx3.usdmm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF695C48; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:10:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <452F800A.9040408@tomjudge.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:01:14 +0100 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ari Suutari References: <452E2151.80500@suutari.iki.fi> <452E27B4.2030709@tomjudge.com> <452E2AA0.4080702@suutari.iki.fi> <452F7BF2.5080206@suutari.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <452F7BF2.5080206@suutari.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: carp0 interface goes down on 6.2-PRERELEASE 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: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:27 -0000 Ari Suutari wrote: > Ari Suutari wrote: >> I have now tested with real hardware (ethernet is fxp0) and >> under VmWare (ethernet is lnc0). Same problem on both. > > I'll have to correct this. Carp works with fxp0. Problem is > only under vmware, which makes me more and more suspect > that it is because lnc0 does not support link state reporting > (it seems to be present on only a few drivers). > I do remember seeing this problem when developing some systems in vmware that the carp interfaces where always in INIT when the system booted. I added a small rc script to for the interfaces up using 'ifconfig carp0 up' which seemed to make the interfaces come up however if on system is unplugged from the network it will automatically put itself into the master state until it can talk to the other servers in the carp group. Tom J