Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:16:04 +0000 From: Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to upgrade a carp pair from 13 to 14 given the pfsync protocol changed ? Message-ID: <4391e5c5-ddd1-4ebf-b327-c8fa7e9fa68e@twisted.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <72A77920-E4EC-4553-A99A-21A0B1BD5E09@jnielsen.net> References: <753f0ad9-bc19-4c81-ba78-1ed67aab8b99@twisted.org.uk> <72A77920-E4EC-4553-A99A-21A0B1BD5E09@jnielsen.net>
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On 23/11/2023 01:41, John Nielsen wrote: >> On Nov 21, 2023, at 9:42 AM, Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote: >> >> I spotted this in the release notes, but am unsure how to now actual do this. I have two machines running carp, as a failover pair, and I normally upgrade BACKUP, reboot, switch to MASTER, and do the other and flip back. >> >> But I dont quite see how to do this from 13 to 14 - my worry is that when the upgraded machine comes back up, it will just take on MASTER and I will have two MASTERs. >> >> I see that it's possible to make the talk the old protocol, but then how do I move to the new protocol ? > Specify the old protocol in rc.conf on both machines and do the upgrade one at a time. Once both are upgraded, stop pfsync on the standby machine, change the version on the active machine, restart pfsync on the standby machine also with the new version. > Ah, thankyou - I had forgotten pfsync was a service I can stop and start! Thats the critical bit of info I was missing... -pete.
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