From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 19:00:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C35106568C for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from biancalana@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1938FC0A for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from biancalana@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so3152663rvf.43 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:00:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=foBRIOUil+ZOUsIKlDpikY8YACJKAIMJvKkfwMI5gBc=; b=j85iZ9gDzpZ0aXlJKj4+vpfNsBTIQ7pX5I5QqGIpmQE8jC2soW1qHII49AS5gtY2+Q H5VbW6Z6jPSqiVuuh06F26i78YUsHLvBfeoNIisLDYL1Xi6Kfjq0tUSEu68lIokQxL8Q ucpWoogA+5o10WjdV08JqgWND/TTg4xWaq7r0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=IMRHNxPv7Tf5plb7+Ja01CD2AwuPYQo86h/z+qBnVYVfhgA89979yvdg8H32uelhP+ acw8qs9IDg/fctviR6FPuv6Keqbu5TqAmGOSPegpw5UlBAaTZetDO/hbHWcmTYlaBWcs 6SL5JkQrwew44u/byyq/gOUBFb6otOwYUTyyA= Received: by 10.141.201.1 with SMTP id d1mr6333357rvq.117.1217876437175; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.114.16 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8e10486b0808041200i88b69f6la8596ecfce72167a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:00:37 -0300 From: "Alexandre Biancalana" To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200808011333.21884.nvass@teledomenet.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8e10486b0807292151wa67d464kfd906da08a2f8053@mail.gmail.com> <200807301806.04141.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <8e10486b0807312054i7b3ca5f1x19f4899ef5a638c3@mail.gmail.com> <200808011333.21884.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: Subject: Re: carp+openospfd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:00:38 -0000 On 8/1/08, Nikos Vassiliadis 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!