Tim <t-openbsd <at> timdarby.net> writes:
>
> I'm using CARP under 3.7 release version on two boxes that aren't
firewalls, so
> no pfsync involved and CARP configured as described in the FAQ.
What I'm seeing
> is that the box I've designated as BACKUP always boots with carp0
as INIT and
> carp1 and carp2 both come up BACKUP as expected.
I found my own workaround for this problem and I'm posting it on the chance it
will help someone else. I did some more experimenting and tried adding more
backup carp interfaces to the physical interface that already had three. When
I did this, I noticed that every time I added an interface, another interface
that had previously been working now came up as INIT. So, initially I had:
carp0 - INIT
carp1 - BACKUP
carp2 - BACKUP
After adding carp3, I had:
carp0 - INIT
carp1 - INIT
carp2 - BACKUP
carp3 - BACKUP
and carp4:
carp0 - INIT
carp1 - INIT
carp2 - INIT
carp3 - BACKUP
carp4 - BACKUP
This made me wonder if there was some timing thing going on when the carp
interfaces were started on boot, so I tried adding a sleep to /etc/netstart as
follows:
*** netstart Sat Oct 8 15:51:43 2005
--- netstart.mod Sat Oct 8 15:51:13 2005
***************
*** 309,314 ****
--- 309,315 ----
case $if in
"carp"*)
+ sleep 1
ifstart $if
;;
*)
After doing this, all interfaces came up correctly as BACKUP. If anyone has a
better solution, I'd be happy to hear it otherwise I'm calling it done and
getting on with my weekend.
