From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 18:11:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6EBEFF for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7618FC16 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail.dweimer.net [192.168.5.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qATHhGT3004351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:43:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:43:16 -0600 From: dweimer To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: CARP within VirtualBox Does it =?UTF-8?Q?work=3F?= Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: Message-ID: <737f4b1c8bff13850af119f917ed811c@dweimer.net> X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:11:03 -0000 I was trying to setup a test of CARP on two virtual machines running in VirtualBox 4.2.4r81684 I am not sure if I have something wrong with my CARP configuration or if VirtualBox just doesn't work right with it. I can only ping the CARP interface IP address from the machine listed as MASTER, if I do an ifconfig carp0 down on the MASTER the other machine correctly switches form BACKUP to MASTER and then I can ping the interface from it but not from the Original system. The VirtualBox systems are both using bridged networking, and the host cannot ping the carp0 IP address but can ping the interface IP address. Before I go through more trouble shooting, does anyone know if CARP doesn't work with VirtualBox? carp configuration Machine1: ifconfig_em0="UP" ifconfig_em0_name="LAN" ipv4_addrs_LAN="10.20.190.201/16" defaultrouter="10.20.111.2" cloned_interfaces="carp0" ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 advskew 100 pass ReduntantCarpTest 10.20.190.203/16 ifconfig carp0: carp0 flags=49 metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.20.190.203 netmask 0xffff0000 nd6 options=29 carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 100 Machine2: ifconfig_em0="UP" ifconfig_em0_name="LAN" ipv4_addrs_LAN="10.20.190.202/16" defaultrouter="10.20.111.2" cloned_interfaces="carp0" ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 pass ReduntantCarpTest 10.20.190.203/16 ifconfig carp0: carp0 flags=49 metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.20.190.203 netmask 0xffff0000 nd6 options=29 carp: BACKUP vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 0 FreeBSD version is 9.1RC3 on both test machines. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/