Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:00:37 -0300 From: "Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: carp+openospfd Message-ID: <8e10486b0808041200i88b69f6la8596ecfce72167a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200808011333.21884.nvass@teledomenet.gr> References: <8e10486b0807292151wa67d464kfd906da08a2f8053@mail.gmail.com> <200807301806.04141.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <8e10486b0807312054i7b3ca5f1x19f4899ef5a638c3@mail.gmail.com> <200808011333.21884.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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On 8/1/08, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2008 06:54:02 Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > > The firewalls failover this is working great with Carp. My > > difficulties is to configure OpenOSPFD to distribute routes in this > > setup, > > > Two points: > 1) Did you try to run OSPF on the CARP interface? > Or the physical one? I don't think running OSPF > on the CARP interface will work, cause the CARP > interface receives nothing while at BACKUP mode. OpenOSPFD always see CARP interfaces as passive... > > No, OSPF cannot provide load balancing, as FreeBSD does not support > equal cost multipath routing, that is you can use one and only one > next hop for a destination. So, in short, OSPF will not do load > balancing, as it does with other vendors you may be familiar with. bad news... I remember now that multiple fibs are too new on FreeBSD... Thinking again, I can survive with equal cost multipath routing and do the failover via script... How's good is our ECMP ? Have someone tested this ? > > If you run CARP on the LAN links as well(which you probably do), > you should test and see how CARP's ARP level load balancing fits > your network... It's working as expected Thank you again!
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