Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:17:57 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: Adam Strohl <adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Subject: Re: IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes Message-ID: <4FD74185.4090804@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <4FD73E8F.1010206@ateamsystems.com> References: <E1SeQWZ-0007x5-Uu@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <4FD73E8F.1010206@ateamsystems.com>
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On 6/12/12 3:05 PM, Adam Strohl wrote: > On 6/12/2012 19:48, Pete French wrote: >> I ran into some - aliases on a CARP integface did not seem >> to work proprly - but if you workaround that then it appears >> to work fine. We are using it in production with no problems. > > I have noticed this issue (CARP + IPv4 aliases) with older (pre 9.x) > versions of FreeBSD. > > I maintain some legacy 6.2 servers and had to eventually add ifconfig > statements inside rc.local to get the links to coalesce. 6.2 appears to > ignore _alias<n> directives entirely inside rc.conf, and has real issues > if you add/delete aliases to a CARP interface while its up (both peers > end up thinking they're MASTER). > > In 9.x it all works as expected at least for IPv4 (rc.conf > carp<n>_alias<n> entries, aliases, on the fly reconfiguring). > Like Pete, we haven't experienced problems related to aliases either here. Running on a variety of 8.1-RELEASE , 8.2-PRERELEASE, 8.2-RELEASE, and now thankfully 8.3-STABLE ;)
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