Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:28:36 +0300 From: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org> To: Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r232486 - stable/9/sbin/ifconfig Message-ID: <CAE-mSOLYobVfoPgH7p8QU-mnsGuK1nQ2-0dQEGh6YOZ2Uk8Tsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201203041037.q24AbQhv026104@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201203041037.q24AbQhv026104@svn.freebsd.org>
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On 4 March 2012 14:37, Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: remko > Date: Sun Mar 4 10:37:26 2012 > New Revision: 232486 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232486 > > Log: > Add an ifconfig carp option that enables users to set > the state of the carp cluster. > > This is a direct commit to stable/9 because -HEAD's > code is very different. I discussed this with Gleb > and the reason for this is that since we do not > touch the kernel itself and are not adding very > weird or confusing things, we can commit this to the > stable branch directly. > > The options 'master' and 'backup' are now available, > which enables the administrator to force a node into > the backup or master state on the cluster. Ofcourse > preempt has to be disabled otherwise the master node > will become master again. > > One can do that with: > > sysctl net.inet.carp.preempt=0 > > After that one can schedule maintenance on the node > normally running as the master and such. > > PR: 100956 > Discussed with: glebius > MFC after: 1 weeks What are the chances this will appear in 8.3-RELEASE? -- wbr, pluknet
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