On 3/17/06, Steven S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Irvine wrote: > > I tried before with 2 quad cards to no avail. That was under 3.6 > > though IIRC. 1 or 2 if's would fail over within a couple of hours, > > but if left to it's own devices, eventually they all would. > > > > If you do figure something out lemme know, I'd love to go back to the > > quad cards. > > > > ifstated didn't work for me but give it a go. I also had a script on > > each machine that would ping the other every 5 seconds for ever.... > > The interfaces seemed to last longer but eventually failed that way > > too. > > > > --Bryan > > The interfaces that I'm having the most problem with are the built-in > interfaces on a Compaq DL360 (I misstated earlier that it was a dual > interface nic) although I have two other dual port nics in the machine. I > wonder if the built-in looks like a dual port nic?
I never had a machine with built-in NICs *and* multi-port cards. > I find it odd that the problem might be related to the multi-port nic. Did > you try the same configuration with single port nics and it worked? I'm > beginning to think it might be a component of the number of carp interfaces > (you would likely have more carp interfaces on a machine with multiport > nics.) Yup! The quad cards were all intel-based, replaced the cards with other intel cards, and everything worked. Same pf.conf, same hostname.if, everything. --Bryan
